Today, I have something really special for you. A late fall (December 3) cliff climbing race! I was strolling around, and I came upon a cliff. Nobel’s dastardly invention brought it to […]
Okanagan Rock Climbing Speed Record?
Siyaʔ Gives Her Sisters Space
Look how this group of serviceberry bushes have spaced themselves out so that their farthest branches, laden with berries, will just fill the space between them, and no more. Note as well […]
Eagle and Turtle Tell a Bigger Story Now
Nine years ago, I showed you some of the sights of Turtle Mountain in the North Okanagan, and shared my theory that the syilx story of Turtle and Eagle is linked to […]
Landscaping Your New Home by Hand in the Okanagan
You’ve moved to the Okanagan, and look, your dream home! There’s some gravel and clay to deal with, but don’t you worry about that. If you were here a week ago, you […]
Pruning the Sun: The Intimate Relationship Between Fruit Trees and Words
Eighteen months ago, I showed you this image of a cherry tree in bloom. It was early in the pandemic and I was thinking of building a life that extended past it. […]
What is Thinking?
Is contemplation, preparation, memory and readiness thinking, like this: or is it something that comes before muscular action, which it holds in readiness, like this: Note that the muscles are visibly sculpted. […]
Okanagan Architectural Bloopers, Part 4: Plastic, Imitation and Gravity
Basalt rock breaks into angular shapes, of differing dimensions, according to how it cooled, This is pretty standard for the North Okanagan: These rocks roll naturally down slope and collect in hollows […]
A Crop Unpicked, A Chance Missed, An Opportunity Awaiting
At first, at Antlers’ Beach this afternoon, that old salmon, deer and berry camp midway up the western shore of Okanagan Lake, I thought, where are the birds? The birds that could […]
The Tree Whisperer: My New Book on the Poetry of Tree Pruning
This is a beautiful book, that holds 51 years of my personal tree pruning experience, and a few thousand years of ancestral experience behind it. This hand-made book is just out from […]
Whose Land is This, Then?
Here’s the shore of Okanagan Lake in Vernon. Everything between the creek in the middle of the image and the green lawn in the foreground is part of Priest Valley Indian Reserve […]
Okanagan Okanogan 