The above image shows what lives here: ponderosa pine, a thick ground cover of lichens and mosses, saskatoon bushes, giant rye grass, bluebunch wheatgrass, hawthorns, chokecherries, and mule deer. That works well. […]
I discovered the spirit of the Okanagan a week and a half ago, peering slyly out of the hills … … and promised to go and have a closer look. Today was […]
First, sing! That’s gotta work. House Sparrow If you’re more of a leafy type, you might try this neat trick: as your photosynthesis slows in the fall, you make red pigments instead […]
She uses gravity to walk through time and to lift up what is low and bring it to the sky. This is what time looks like.
In my country, human consciousness is created when human animals engage in the weaving of the earth together with its spiritual stories. They are often recorded in the land, waiting to be […]
As you walk through the Commonage in the North Okanagan Valley, the spirits of the land rise and fall and shift around you in waves, sometimes high in the sky … sometimes […]
The time before the time of human life is stone and memory. Lynx and Frog are having a chat that goes on forever. The ponderosa women listen in. Their spirit collects at […]
This is a cashew. Staghorn Sumac This is a cashew. Really. Source. This is a cashew: Poison Ivy There are many other cashews in the world. Mangos … … and pistachios … … for […]
Imagine looking up at the hill and seeing the spirit that has been there for 12,000 years for the first time. 450,000 people live in the Okanagan/Okanogan Valley. For all of us, […]
Living in the early 21st Century is sure wild, isn’t it. Welcoming Figure, Aquamarin Hair Salon, Jena, Germany Think of it. You go in this building to get your hair done, which […]
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