Earth has a mouth …… but it is not a human mouth, although the family resemblance holds. Earth has a throat … … and a urethra … … but they are not […]
Not Necessarily the Anthropocene
The Secrets of Dawn
The blue of the sky divides into darkness and light. Then the sky separates. The light falls, then rises again from the Earth. There are glimpses to the world within the clouds […]
Unlaunching the Okanagan in Kelowna Tonight
Tonight, March 9, 2016, at 6:30 p.m. at the Laurel Packinghouse, at the corner of Cawston and Ellis in Kelowna, I will be helping to unlaunch the Okanagan. Read all about it here. […]
The Bones of Our Mother
This is our mother. These are the bones of our mother, with the glacial outwash gravel that cut them from her body above. These are some of our mother’s bones weathering in the […]
Earth and Story
I know the land. I’ve known it for a long time. I know the stories. I’ve known them for a long time. Stories of Coyote, for example, that howler..Such knowledge is useless […]
The Earth Has Beautiful Skin
Or at least it should. A few days ago, I showed you what the practice of grazing cattle on grassland slopes has done to the earth. Here’s an image of a destroyed […]
The Most Expensive Lakeview Lot in the Okanagan Valley?
If it’s not the most expensive single family building lot, I can’t find a pricier one. Note the cute little survey post. It has a stunning view of Okanagan Lake. Lots of early season […]
Coyote Made This Country, and He’s Still At It
Thanks, brother.
High Canopy Sagebrush Forest
Size is relative. Grasslands are forests, too. They only appear short because we walk in the sky.
Smarter, More Ethical Water for the Okanagan
Here’s a great idea about water… …which the Vernon newspaper graciously printed for me. You can find it in the February 26 edition of the Vernon Morning Star, here. If you page […]
Okanagan Okanogan 