Really. Look at it hanging there at the level of the mountaintops, and no more. Boiling off, really!
Okanagan Lake Climbs into the Sky
The Life of Okanagan Lake: a Meditation on the Year Before Us
When warmer water strikes in colder air, it brings objects to life, by bringing it across a boundary of energy into a new state. It does so by moving the boundary. Rain […]
Rain in Cascadia is Not the Apocalypse
I just listened to a couple Canadian reporters talk about the stress of reporting on climate change and a hostile Earth firsthand during last months floods here in Northern Cascadia, and how […]
Watering the Garden in Winter Makes Sense
Winter in the grassland is not a time of waiting. This is when the year is actively formed. To collect the water you will need in the spring, you need to start […]
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
The surface of water is pretty much flat. Beneath that, it rises and falls and flows according to temperature, pressure, inflow and outflow and other watery things like that. Above its surface […]
Surf’s Up in Vernon!
Really. Big breakers today. Sailboat getting into trouble in Canim Bay. Not that the surfers aren’t glad. Whoo ha! Here’s one showing us her technique! See that? It’s not that ducks swim. […]
The King of the Forest Meets the Wildfires Now
What’s a guy to eat? Not this dried out stuff. Hurt your gums, throat and gut to chaw on this cellulose. What a guy might want is something native to the place, […]
Gravity and Water and Deer Make Trails Together
I asked the question months back, what will the deer do to even out this hump in their trail, seeing as the lower part slumped on them. We have our answer! They’re […]
Earth Weather, Sky Weather and Climate Change
The pictures are everywhere: the terrible washouts of rail lines and highways in the Fraser Canyon, that severed Canada’s third largest city for a week. As you can see in this photo […]
A Little Dictionary of Water
Here’s a little experiment to explore what we talk about when we talk about water and how connected to the Earth and Water English really is. The root of “water”, “wet”, is […]
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