Bears build their highways in the shade. Look at the planetary forces they live in. You’d think they were creatures of the stars. Now, here’s a golf cart highway up the […]
Of Bears and Men and the Stars
Putting a Face to Nature
This is not nature. It is a shrub. This is not nature. It is another shrub. This is not nature. You got it. Another shrub. This is not nature.It’s grass. This is […]
Did You Lose Your Mind? Don’t Worry. I Found It.
Ah, the noble stag, majestically ruling its wild kingdom in parallel to the worlds of men. Here you can see a young mule deer buck framed against a hillside sculpted by humans […]
Ethnobotanical Knowledge: The Language of Science Part 2
Remember? Yesterday I pointed out that each of the plants below, although far apart in botanical class-action, share the power of redness, which arises at different points on each plant, stem, leaf and […]
Ancient Stories Written in the Rock
At the bottom of Skaha Lake, where the Okanagan River once collected itself in a series of oxbows and reefs before dropping over the falls (a series of steep rapids), the point at […]
The Unity of Plants vs. Human Hate
The science based on Darwin holds that plants evolve over time to fit various ecological niches. This bunchgrass, for example, evolved to take advantage of hot, windy climates. The science based on […]
Why Good Science Matters
Yesterday, I wrote this: It is time to stop taking the world apart and to acknowledge that what we seek is what we will find. It is that kind of universe. I […]
Vertical Rivers and Walking on Water
Just look at this aspen pouring up into the sun. Aspen Copse with Beetle-Killed Fire Pine, Big Bar Lake My sister. To Newtonian science, this is an image of organized physical processes viewed by […]
I Love Water
Big Bar Lake, with Damselfly The green colour comes from the bright lake bottom, which is the remains of the bed of an underground glacial river, made of tiny, flat, oval pebbles ground […]
Canada and the Okanagan
Canada does not deserve this land. It burns it… Forest Fire Smoke Over Okanagan Landing … it tries to make it hotter than it is … Plasticized Soil (Weeds, plastic, clay), […]
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