Some landscapes are made by wind. Not these ones in the Chilcotin Basalt, inland from the glacially-carved volcanic arc of the Coast Mountains. Big Bar Eskers This is where the glaciers melted […]
Living Water on the Chilcotin Plateau
Traffic Jam on the Coyote Highway
So, I’m tripping down my favourite Coyote Road, right, admiring the black choke cherries and paying way too much attention to a hawk that’s taking a vole home and is getting harried […]
Living in the Sun
Look at how the water bends around the feet of these water striders. It’s like walking on an electrical force field. We call it “reflections on a lake”, but this is the […]
Moving Into Turtle Island and Living in the Sun
I have come to the point at which the land and my self are one. It is not a politically correct space, but there it is. This is what I look like […]
When the Sun Sets It’s Time to Make a Bed of Wild of Thistles
In Palouse Falls, the world of the heart below the falls is separated from the world of dream above it. Here is a thistle plant at dusk in the world of the […]
Solar Power and Social Power
Solar power looks like this … Hydroelectric power looks like this … Magpie Hill, Bella Vista Road, Vernon Got that? Life looks like this … Harvesting a Solar Conversion Machine Death looks […]
Mapping the Formation of the Solar System, Now
In honour of my 500th post in this exploration… The Okanagan Okanagan Nuclear Reactor at 500! With a nuclear engineer, even! Hurrah! …I’d like to ask a question of the ideal university. […]
The Ideal University
Yesterday, I started collecting questions I would ask of an ideal group of scientists and natural philosophers at an ideal university that merged art, science, philosophy and ethics into a unified field […]
When is a Weed a Weed? When Isn’t It?
Scotch thistle is listed as a noxious weed. To whom? Not to Western Swallowtails tattered by the wind. Not to green sweat bees. Not to bumblebees and Western Swallowtails at once. Maybe […]
I Need an Inventor: 21 New Technologies to Stop Global Warming
It’s obvious: I need a technical staff. Not, perhaps, this guy … This is what Scientific American circa January 1890 says about him: “The accompanying fancy sketch from the N.W. Mechanic presents […]
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