Time to put the bird-watching book aside and write a dragon-watching book, I think!
Dragon Breathing Darkness
Puddinhead Mountain Wakes
In the valley that raised me and gave me my children, the old volcanic country of the Similkameen, filled with the gravel glaciers gouged out of the Okanagan to the east, the […]
Water Has Memory
When a breeze shifts the old cat tail stalks, the energy skin on the water kinks, again and again. Water remembers each kink. Then the greater memory kicks in and the energy […]
A Canadian Education
Canada is a big country. Here’s a tiny piece of it in the west. What you’re looking at is a bit of a collision between a volcano and a seabed off the […]
The Knives of Spring Start Cutting
Snow that has dropped down through the thatch has touched the earth and is carrying it back to the sky.
Earth, Sky and Water East of the Subduction Zone
Look at Okanagan Lake project itself into the sky, as a cloudless space. Storm is trying to move in from the west (and from the northeast), with no luck. Terrace Mountain, in […]
Colourful Spring in the North Okanagan
The wet season is at its peak! Who needs wildflowers when we have leaves, eh.
Spring Snow Magic
In the night, it snows, but in the morning … … ta da! The warmth begins.
Tragedy in the Spring Snow
Our little herd of nine does had two fawns last year. The coyotes got one last week. This doe is now being very protective. It’s hard, though. Forage is reduced by overgrazing, the […]
The Snake and Turtle Trail
There is an ancient trail that comes in from spaxmən (Douglas Lake), crosses kɬúsx̌nítkw (Okanagan Lake) below, on the lower left … … and enters a tongue of land called “The Commonage”. The trail […]
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