Look around. Earth in a bit of distress? Not quite looking up to her old self? Attention, Tractor Drivers! Snakes are Sacred, You Guys! (Poor little baby bull snake meets the Seasonal Foreign […]
The Language of Science, Part 1
Geese are Smart
Geese are geniuses at being geese. We couldn’t do anything like it. We suck at being geese, but we are capable of recognizing goose goosiness when we see it. Yet we put them […]
Vineyards in Germany and Canada Compared
Here’s the wall of a vineyard road in Germany (Schlossberg, Rüdesheim am Rhein) Vineyard Stair, a Self-watering garden zone. The wall collects water and delivers it to a reservoir. Here, the […]
Corn is Fun
The starlings love corn. Humans walk along the ridge line and trample ancient mosses, before coming down and eating corn. Turtle Mountain Whee!
Ancient Stories Written in the Rock
At the bottom of Skaha Lake, where the Okanagan River once collected itself in a series of oxbows and reefs before dropping over the falls (a series of steep rapids), the point at […]
Staring at the Sun
Can you eat the sun? American Gold Finch Yes. Really? Elderberries, Okanagan Falls Yes. Can you stand on the sun without burning your feet? Yes! Can you become beams of light? […]
The Unity of Plants vs. Human Hate
The science based on Darwin holds that plants evolve over time to fit various ecological niches. This bunchgrass, for example, evolved to take advantage of hot, windy climates. The science based on […]
Gravity is Relative: The Wisdom of Wasps
To humans, gravity means you keep your feet on the ground. Not so for wasps. For them, it’s all fine to act that way when flying, but when you stop flying […]
Garage Sex, Okanagan Style
The marriage bed. Go away for 3 weeks and the neighbours move in, with each other on their mind. Madam came first. Yeah, she didn’t pose very well, but there was all […]
Try This on Mars, I Dare You
Life in the sky… … vanishes (This is a form of ripening.) At first it is nowhere to be found. Bones are everywhere. The sun has burnt everything away.Not everything. There are bee caves. […]
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