The world is opening after the months of lying hidden inside buds and roots. Here in the Okanagan, this is what the grapes are looking like this week… However, there are […]
Rebuilding Vineyard Culture Rock by Rock
Salt Lithography
I have mentioned the need for a new Enlightenment, one which includes the earth. The following images show, I think, just where it might begin. This is a variation on the art of […]
Telling Stories through Photography
When I started these notes, I wanted to record explorations of a near-desert caught in the winds of the mountains far inland from the sea. The salmon, I thought, were the ones […]
Principles of Innovative Water Capture Technology
To harvest water from the air, turn two dimensions into three… Cedar Fence, Enhanced by Lichen Efficiently harvesting snow and absorbing it for later use. If you like, though, you can also […]
The Search for Life on the Inner Planets
Note: I have been convinced for some time now that the best descriptions of contemporary life are in Speculative Fiction. Here’s a first attempt at bringing them out of fiction into the […]
How Could Anyone Want More Sun Than This?
The sun starts out as perfect as can be, burning the hydrogen of a star that shone before it and exploded long ago. Out here, where other bits of that star accumulated […]
Sharing the Planet
Canada Geese. Used to be they migrated south. Now? Not so much. They hang around and poop on beaches and … eyew. Up here in Vernon, they also hang around in orchards […]
The Future Looks Like This
We enter the 21st Century from a time of industrial fishing, clearcut forestry, shale frakking, and carbon trading. Because of almost universal human self interest, we have become an endangered species at […]
Natural Lenses
The human eye is a lens. It is a just one among many adaptations of the energy fields of water molecules. Water lenses abound on this planet. Cat Tail and Water […]
Environmentally Friendly Rototiller
Yes, no more do you have to zip on down to the gas pump to fuel up your tiller with refined tar sand goo. No more do you have to sit in […]
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