Barn for sale. New owner. A good place to watch for mice in the field below. Keeps the feet warm, too. Great Blue Heron with Cold Feet (January) Maybe the space […]
Evolution in Action
Canada: Ideology Gone Bad
Ideology is an Invasive Weed (Part Two) In cold post-glacial lakes there are no weeds. The weeds grow in wetlands draining into the shore. In Canada’s version of the Okanagan Valley, it’s […]
Watching the Creation of the Universe
If you want warmth in the late winter, it’s best to leave the ice of the valley floor, pretty as it is. Sunrise on Okanagan Lake Up high, it’s as warm as […]
Bringing the Sky Down to Earth
The image below is a habitat for Canadians. I am one of those. We build structures out of trees we allow to grow as weeds on indigenous land, and line them with […]
Discovering Blue
The blue you see here is the sky early in the morning, when the sun is white and comes in nearly horizontally from the east. Here’s a better view… As you can […]
More Beautiful Ice
Some of the ice I found yesterday is pure art. Here’s a fragment of ice that is acting as a prism, creating blue light out of the early morning. These artworks looked […]
Beauty in a Roadside Puddle
Life is an arrangement of energies and tensions.It helps to slow them down, as the ice in this roadside puddle did overnight. Perhaps it’s not life that’s the story, but boundaries, where […]
The Seventh Dimension
Yesterday, I explored six dimensions of bodies on the grasslands. I’d like to show you the seventh today. I’d like to talk about ethics. Let me introduce you to one of the […]
What to Look for On Mars
The search for life on Mars concentrates on geology and chemistry, not because life is entirely a business of geology or chemistry, but because a) those things can be measured and b) […]
There Is No “Post-” in Post-Colonialism
I walked up the hill across the valley today, to get into the fog. No, this isn’t today. This is the spring of 2012. But that’s part of the hill in the […]
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