It’s nice to meet old friends. Here’s an Icelandic troll I found at dawn on Easter two years ago. Here’s the Okanagan version I found on Kalamalka Lake four days ago. […]
Trolls in the Okanagan and Iceland
For the Love of Water
Light is pretty great stuff. Add it to grass and it’s even greater. Water helps. A lot. Some forms of life are the embodiment of the energy of the intersection of water […]
And Then Comes the Hawk
So, you’re gushing over the watercress of springtime … … and who should come but some old friends you knew on the plateau years back … The Bohemian Waxwings Are Here! As […]
Save the Earth, Save Yourself (Seeing in the Dark, Part 3)
I promised to write about the environmental and scientific consequences of reading the land as darkness, in an embodied science, rather than as light (the kind of science we have today). I meant […]
Seeing in the Dark, Part II
Yesterday I proposed that the science of light and the world it allows humans to see … … was a deduction, a creative act, so to speak, not a leap of faith […]
The Waxwings Are Here!
Imagine, you’re a crabapple tree, just hanging out. Kind of a foggy day. Then it happens! The waxwings are coming! And they are here, covering every tree in sight, taking turns to […]
Greenhouses Made Out of Snow
The coyotes come on by in the fog. Heavy coyote traffic, really. Birds trit trot through.Mule Deer stalk along. And the grasses and sages use the energy from these travellers and peck-peckers… … […]
Cuckoo Grass
A cuckoo is a bird that lays its eggs in other birds’ nests and lets them go about the hard work of raising them. It’s like that up on the hill. As […]
Two Ways to Turn Winter Into Summer
1. Pines, Sun and Water Look how this ponderosa pine’s needles are designed to radiate heat. This helps for cooling in the summer. In the winter, the design helps the tree to collect […]
Walking in the Snow
When the fog and the frost roll in and the snow crunches underfoot and the air nips at the fingers and the toes freeze in the boots, it’s time to go pruning […]
Okanagan Okanogan 