In a year of stress, everyone, from those ants to the right to the leaf miner that left its trail in this cottonwood leaf, is mining the last pools of spring water […]
Raven Contemplates Fire
Salmon Arm, Shuswap Lake That’s 100 years of smoke between Raven and the water.
Where the Woods Meet the Water
Yesterday, I mentioned that Naomi Klein’s critique of this past season of storms and fires missed a Cascadian perspective. Here’s one, from Shuswap Lake. Let me decode that. When one is of […]
Blend In! (Not.)
Drought makes it easier for birds. They need the help. Sucks for stink bugs and lilacs-planted-in-the-wrong-place, though.
Construction Gone Bad in Vernon
Men have been digging at the hill to make a level place to build houses, and have put up a wall of blasted rock to hold the hill back. Note the deer. […]
Total Eclipse of the Sun … Whenever You Want!
When it gets too hot and bright out … … there is always the dark. Spider runs the solar shuttle best.
How The Sun Makes Rich Soil
It’s simply beautiful how it is done. First, water sorts out the finest grains of silt, and deposits them on the surface of low points in the earth, filling them in. Then […]
Alfalfa Walking
When you rely on animals brushing up against your seeds, or pecking at them, to knock them to the soil, it’s best to fall over with the weight of your flowers, so […]
A Proposal for Nature Tourism for the Okanagan
This wetland beauty is what a real tourism is made of. I witnessed busloads of Asian tourists scattered across pastures in Iceland, to take pictures of exquisite light. The timing, the location, […]
Invisible Deer
Well, she thinks so!
Okanagan Okanogan 