Today, joy. Way up high, the sun. High up above us, in the shallows of the sea of glorious winter fog Okanagan Lake gives off for the entire length of its 135 kilometre fresh […]
The Glorious Winter Sun
At Home in the Earth Community
Like the grass on the Big Bar Esker below, I don’t live in the straight beams of light. I live at the continuity of points of intersection with them, which bend in […]
Beauty, Art and the Self
Beautiful, isn’t it. This, too. Note the patterning in this kind of thing. Sure, it was carefully framed, but oh so many frames were possible. They all have pattern. They’re all beautiful. […]
First Steps Towards the New Sun
Perspective matters. Was that light playing on water? Is this, below? They are one, but only when my body and mind are one. They are different at the same time. This difference is […]
Mother Sculpin
Let us praise the little rock fish, the Columbia Sculpin, cottus hubsi… … and let us praise the snow that reveals her on the shore of Okanagan Lake, that 135 kilometre long story […]
The Pleasures of Winter
The pleasures of winter are born in spring and harvested in Autumn. Then comes memory, and then the old year again in a new form. Choke Cherries in September, Big Bar Lake […]
The Spirit of Birds and Trees
Watching the magpies watch me today, in their way of leapfrogging from tree to tree to fencepost to shrub to shrub to post up the slope, always 70 metres apart, always keeping […]
Welcome to the Land of the Big Heads
It’s called the Okanagan Valley now, north of the 1846 border that divided this land into two. South of that line, it’s known as Okanogan County, Washington, USA — hardly a valley. Early […]
The Beautiful Math of Soil
Here’s what I’m talking about. Look how the sun and its shadows are interacting with the slopes of this ravine to create wet and dry, cold and warm zones (which alternate with […]
The Earth Puts Her Roots in the Sky
I want to draw a correspondence today between leaves and soil. I think it’s pretty cool. First, here are some leaves doing just fine without soil. Welcome to mullein. When it finishes […]
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