Nice farm, huh. What are they growing? Trouble and debt.Approximately 66,000 apple tree roots planted last spring and grafted late last summer. Subsidized by the Ministry of Agriculture. The idea is to save money: […]
Welcome to the Wallula Gap. That’s the impounded Columbia River, in its old bed there. The gap between the cliffs is so narrow that the 300 foot deep flood wave from the melting ice age that […]
This is Cle Elum Lake. It was once the nursery for juvenile salmon that hatched in the mountains you can see in the farthest distance in this photograph. The Colvilles and the […]
In my country, human consciousness is created when human animals engage in the weaving of the earth together with its spiritual stories. They are often recorded in the land, waiting to be […]
THE CREATIVE ENVIRONMENT This post collects the 17 sections of a discussion on creativity, identity and environment which I have posted over the past 5 weeks. It is the first half of […]
The word “creativity” is American and expresses American culture. If you’re ever in a position to hear this word, be assured, you are in the United States, or some form of it. […]
Boundaries give focus. They’re also wildly frustrating. Grey Canal Trail, Bella Vista Hills A general human glance does not have boundaries like that. Neither, though, is a human glance — or human […]
Catholic Church, Okanagan Indian Reserve Father Nobili spent two years on this site, from 1848-1850. There was no British Columbia then, and no Reserve. When the British came in 1859, he was soon forgotten. […]
The grass is a cultural being. So are cat tails and so is poetry. Talk about a rhyme scheme, eh! First, the grass. Not only does it have its own culture, but […]
These are the lips of the sun. Look at them reach across the span of the year.
Okanagan Okanogan 