Look at these choke cherries, living in the zone between the grass and the aspens. In the perfect water zone where birds that pass between trees (for shelter) and grass (for […]
Footprints in the Interface: A Permaculture Model
Please, Please, Please Don’t Plant That Lavender!
If you plant that lavender, the crab spiders will have nowhere to go, and they are the wolves of this ecosystem. Removing the top predator from a chain, in this case a […]
We Are All Dressing in Our Finery Now and Waiting for the Feast
We are all just waiting now … … waiting… waiting…waiting… …turning around and waiting some more …… OK, sure, maybe getting a little impatient … … and thin … … maybe a […]
No Mulch or Tillage on This Soil, Please
A living skin, however, is what the climate of the grasslands east of the coastal stratovolcanoes calls for. Anything else is quite the ongoing struggle. Whew. Save your back, eh!
Not Just Another Pretty Face
A lovely day for bumble bees. The beauty hangout today is the vetch on the hill. Pretty nice for an escapee from a hay bale! And of course, the queen of the […]
Outliers in a Web of Interwoven Worlds
The arrow-leafed balsam root is a great world for crab spiders, wasps, flies and bees, and blooms across the hills in the spring, one of the few native plants that can resist […]
Self-Planting Regime, No Shovel Required!
Where water collects, so does the wind. That means, that elm seeds can collect in the dry season where water will collect later, without using water to do so. Footprints are also […]
What’s for Lunch Today? A Menu for the Deer in Your Life
Flowers for lunch? Not on your life. Grass maybe? Don’t be silly. A guy needs some sweet loving. Alfalfa, it is. Until Harold’s peppers are ready. Everyone knows that, right? ~ […]
How the World Reacts to a Human Lack of Peripheral Vision
So, since it’s kind of hard to get a handle on how a human thinks when one is a human thinking, which is like asking a vacuum cleaner how it sucks while […]
Every Nectarine Begins in Hope and Beauty
Farmers, a practical lot, are known to choose to plant nectarines because they have prettier petals than peaches, like the red haven below. I think the nectarines are choosing us.
Okanagan Okanogan 