This is Cle Elum Lake. It was once the nursery for juvenile salmon that hatched in the mountains you can see in the farthest distance in this photograph. The Colvilles and the […]
Artificial Intelligence and Salmon in the Pacific Northwest
Aesthetic Mindfulness
Sympathetic magic is a complex term for a simple phenomena: in pre-Enlightenment culture, the power of objects was believed to derive from similarities between them; knowledge of these similarities, and the ordering […]
Mr. Nobel, You Have a Lot to Answer For
Human spring. Bella Vista Spring. Human spring. Bumblebee Spring. Human Spring. Coyote’s Front Yard Spring. Human Spring. Okanagan Lake Spring. Dynamite Spring. Deer Trail Spring. Grassland spring. Only one is called progress, […]
Choose Carefully
Complexity … Straight line … Both lead to life. One of those isn’t dependent upon oil field profits.
Spiritual Life and Wealth in the Okanagan
Do the wealthy build monuments to their power on spiritual sites because they recognize them or because they don’t? Temples were once built by the wealthy for the gods. Now they are […]
You Do It By Sweating Hard
Red osier dogwood dissipates heat by colour (the hotter the climate, the deeper the winter colour)…. …and ponderosa pine does it by shape. So, that makes us equal. Good.
Reading the Land for Real
You know how I showed you Sen’klip (aka Coyote) the other day? Yes? No? Yip yip? Yap yap? No matter, he’s such a handsome guy he’s worth having another look-see. What a […]
Illusions of Water Create Realities of Drought
Volcanic landscape, right? Wrong. It’s made by water. Neskonlith Falls Below is the old periglacial lake bottom of Glacial Lake Kamloops. That flat land is the bottom of the lake. The train […]
Green Fire
Cheatgrass burns off a whole season’s water at once … in early March. By May, this will be a desert, and this fire will be red. This sagebrush-cheatgrass culture takes the place […]
The Earth Has Beautiful Skin
Or at least it should. A few days ago, I showed you what the practice of grazing cattle on grassland slopes has done to the earth. Here’s an image of a destroyed […]
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