Today, sober reflection. Tomorrow, a celebration. Kind of a small difference, eh. When the 5,000-year-old rattlesnake den on the hill was blasted away to make room for the luxury view homes the […]
Cultural Evolution in a Post-Canadian Landscape
A Celebration of the Sophisticated Art Traditions of the Okanagan Valley
The art of flirting artfully with danger … … needs a stage that is, itself, art. In it, you can put, well, art. Some options for the Okanagan lifestyle from Hambleton Gallery […]
Please, Please, Please Don’t Plant That Lavender!
If you plant that lavender, the crab spiders will have nowhere to go, and they are the wolves of this ecosystem. Removing the top predator from a chain, in this case a […]
Reading the Language of the Land
Imagine writing a language that meets the shape of the land. It is built on deep bones, such as the Arrowstone volcanic flows below: both vertical and horizontal at the same time, […]
More Climate Change Lessons from the Okanagan
Problem: Petroleum Mucking up the Air? Solution: De-muck it. How: Plant a tree. The image below shows City of Vernon land used as a road to access a water pumping station. The […]
Junked Cars and Apricot Trees and the “News”
Apricot trees and land barges, these relics from my youth, go so well together, don’t you think. It was the age when you had a choice: to drive or to set down […]
Northern Pocket Gopher Makes the World
At the time of year when the first flowers sport stinkbugs … … and the aspens put out their first leaves, untouched yet by leaf-ming worms… … and cedar bugs frisk about […]
Catching the Earth Thinking Through Gravity
Here are some examples of how the Earth thinks without using human thought. Raising Water Without a Pump Great height can be gained by evaporative surfaces connected to water tension surfaces in […]
Two Years at Nicomen Falls
Here’s an image I made at Nicomen Falls in the spring of 2017. The river had a way of talking, as you can see, and I responded by pushing the image close […]
Indigenous Land Use and the Agricultural Land Reserve
It’s actually the law of the land: indigenous rights precede all others. No matter that the rule has scarcely been applied since 1858, it’s still the law of the land, and it […]
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