Windy day up on the hill. No bees, but many flowers making themselves all pretty for them. That’s a beautiful flower. When you’re from this place, it’s the only one for you, […]
Butterflies and Meadowlarks on a Cold Spring Day
Cascadia: the Braided Land
It’s great to look out to sea. It weaves. Then it strikes the land. The land weaves, too. Any way you look at it, it weaves. The beach, too. Here the sun […]
Okanagan Lake is Not a Lake: a Lesson for Global Warming
It is cold 10,000 years old, left by a glacier, which harvested it for 50,000 years. Okanagan Lake, at Okanagan Landing It’s not a lake. It’s an inland fjord. Its bedrock descends over […]
Choose Carefully
Complexity … Straight line … Both lead to life. One of those isn’t dependent upon oil field profits.
You Do It By Sweating Hard
Red osier dogwood dissipates heat by colour (the hotter the climate, the deeper the winter colour)…. …and ponderosa pine does it by shape. So, that makes us equal. Good.
The Miracle of Water
The big sage that held water for years against the pull of the sun, and grew thick with time, now holds water and earth in place by stopping the wind in its […]
The Land is Deep
From the smallest … … to the largest … … it is one.
First the Seed then the Flower
It begins. Arrow-leafed Balsam Root Looking for the Sun No one Need Look Alone
Reading the Land for Real
You know how I showed you Sen’klip (aka Coyote) the other day? Yes? No? Yip yip? Yap yap? No matter, he’s such a handsome guy he’s worth having another look-see. What a […]
Earth and Her Two Suns
Sagebrush. It loves the heat and it looks so grey, right. It loves the cold and it looks so grey, so very grey. But it has a secret. It’s really saturated with […]
Okanagan Okanogan 