The surface of this water has frozen first. After that, the rest of the water didn’t freeze from the top down. Rather, it froze all at once, slowly releasing heat and air […]
Amazing Water
Hunting the Porcupine
I went up the hill to find the porcupine. February, 2019 He likes it up there with the mountain ash. The way lies through a deer sleeping area. Here’s one of the […]
Cold Houses Needed
Houses are built in Canada to keep out the cold and keep in the heat. The latter, they are poor at, but when the heat leaves, more is added. Of course, this […]
What is a Tomato Worth? You Might as Well Ask What is a Person Worth.
Nothing? Or maybe $2.54 each down at Save-On Foods? It’s not labour that makes the price. A friend of mine, a Mexican temporary worker, works his summers here in Canada because in […]
What Vineyard Culture Can Teach Canadians about Drugs
The topsoil and subsoil of a stretch of land can be removed by truck and then replaced in a state that mixes subsoil clay and topsoil together, or just clay on top […]
Gull Island: A New Island in Okanagan Lake
I herby name this new island Gull Island. It has been building for a decade from road sand dumped into BX Creek and carried into the lake at Canim Bay, but now […]
The Memory of Water
Water has memory. As Wikipedia says… Memory is the faculty of the brain by which data or information is encoded, stored, and retrieved when needed. It is the retention of information over time for the purpose of influencing future […]
The Six Lessons Of Water and House Building in the Grasslands
Houses in this grassland subdivision are coming in around $1,000,000 dollars these days. I expect this one on the edge of stream bed is little different. Water has some lessons in store […]
The Lessons of Water
If you try to walk up this gully, you will get less than a metre. Then you’ll be done. Simply put, it is not for humans. It is for water, and water […]
Pure Tree
Look at the quickbeam spread by dividing evenly, over and over again. Not so the poplar. It prefers to raise for the top. The multiplicity and order are here, but they are […]
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