Sure, the story of carbon emissions is the global warming story, but there’s also the story of the warming that comes from urbanization, and there’s the story that comes from the warming […]
Let’s Get Serious About Global Warming
Gardening is Just Too Hard
Even if you spend many thousands of dollars to cover most of your whole yard in black plastic tarp and to cover it in river gravel, there is no guarantee of success at […]
What are Those Americans Up to Now?
I don’t know. Look for yourself. Downtown Kelowna, 2:40 pm. August 20, 2015 I think the Okanagan’s brothers and sisters (nominally Canadian) in Okanogan County (nominally American) need our support in working […]
By These Fish We Take Our Measure
From the shore where fresh water mingles with salt …. …and the tide comes in and out and humans erect the stories of themselves they have always lifted into the sky… … […]
Water Flowing Backwards
On the coast of the Salish Sea, the great Cascadian river, the Ouregon, runs backward with the tide — and with more than tides. In the image below you can see a tug pulling what […]
Loons in Trees
Trees in the lake … … and loons in the trees. That’s good. ~ Otter Marsh, Big Bar Lake
What Colour is the Okanagan?
This is the historical colour. This is the colour today. This is the result of overgrazing.
Landscape, Colonialism and the Unused Two-Car Garage
A landscape is a stretch of land that has been improved by rational planning, sculpting of the land, and the addition of shrubberies, lanes, paths, buildings and other aesthetic features designed for […]
Heart of the Monster
Some images to contemplate, and some questions. Does the heart of the monster from whom the Nimíipuu sprang have a head? Do stones contemplated over 12,000 years remain just stones? Is this Itceyeye […]
Environmental Consciousness is Not Optional
Goethe, the poet, pointed out that all plants express one single energy, that opens through the life cycle of each plant as well as through the diversity of all plants. In his […]
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