Is it the home of my ancestors? Or more inward and mysterious and soaked with light, just metres away? Or both at once? Then again, here in Secwépemc Territory, it is often […]
Disappearing Forests
Taking Your Time
To succeed as a lichen, you don’t need a rock. Sure, lots of lichens are found on rocks, but it’s not a hard-and-fast requirement. What you really need is a place no-one […]
When One Leaf Just Won’t Do
There is no point in just having one point of flattening out to catch the light, when the light comes in pools, splots, splashes and droplets. Best to play the game. After […]
Old Trees Must Die
250 years old seems a good minimum, and then five years to lose all the needles. Then a Douglas fir is ready for a second life. Where else is a young eagle […]
All Dressed Up With Nowhere to Go: a Day Off the Reservation
Traditional dancing might not help. The slope that male deer have been using for their fall gatherings have been graded, sculpted and turned into a big wide flat parking lot for white […]
Paintbrush Has a Visitor
It’s great when you put yourself out there and wait and wait and wait… … and then one day the guests come. Thanks for visiting my blog, eh!
Remember the Beetle-Killed Forests?
The devastation of the Western Pine Bark Beetle. That was news 15 and 20 years back. The end of the world. A global catastrophe. Fire would follow. And so on. A quarter […]
What to Do When Your Apple Pie Gets Hailed On
It was fifteen minutes of hail around 1.5 centimetres in diameter, so, like, way too big for apples that were only 3 centimetres across. I did what we all have to do […]
Random Bug Control
This is an example of the “if it comes out of the ground, who am I to say it doesn’t belong there” style of gardening. Tomatoes hate this approach, but, as you […]
Summer Radishes Don’t Grow Under the Ground
Great radish crop in the heat now. The image below shows a small part of the haul from one plant, ripening beautifully. In the spring, they put their heat in a swollen […]
