It is time to talk about slavery. This form of violence takes many forms. Some are slavery of people to other people, which is terrible, slavery of people to the settler state, […]
Food, Land and Slavery in British Columbia
Muskrats: the Mammalian Goose
Or is the goose the avian muskrat? These are the big questions. First, the goose, nice and fat. Then the biggest muskrat I’ve ever seen, hanging out with its lunch. Imagine what […]
Be the Water, Be Your Fate
The water rewrites the forest. It also rewrites the world of the fish. And the turtles. Like so: Human minds are constructed to bridge the difference. And to dissect it. Do you […]
We Left the House and Garden and Went to the Lily Pads and What Did We See?
It’s good to get out of the house and see the world getting on without us. On Friday, it was an eared grebe in the lily pads on Gardom Lake. It was […]
Asters Looking Out for Each Other
In the very place where big sage (an aster) … … makes a sun of heat in the winter and melts the snow (bringing on summer two months early) … … … […]
Beautiful Wasp
She’s not very big, but she sure is beautiful! About 12 or 13 mm long, I’d say. The early bees took a beating in the winter, but later pollinators have fared better. […]
We are Creatures of Light
Let’s do an experiment. The world is getting heavy. It’s break-in under the strain. Let’s see what we’re missing out on. There is light. It is a weightless thing. That makes sense. […]
Canada: Country of Weeds
Seriously. Here’s an image of the Grey Canal trail in the Okanagan Valley, the syilx homeland that Canada claimed as its own in 1871. Every single plant you see in this image, […]
The Rose is a Powerful Teacher
Roses that grow in the open… … are easy enough to walk around and harvest, for humans, deer and late winter birds. It’s when they grow inside a thicket, planted there by […]
Early Ripening Siya? Berries
The siya? berries are swelling. And here, on June 2, some are red. Amazing. This is a July crop here.
Okanagan Okanogan 