All things that work.
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 […]
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 […]
Well, that’s it. The summer harvest is over! Just the floor to sweep now.
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 […]
Gravity is a weak force, but it’s awfully persistent. It gives us hills, with bits that are up and bits that were up and are now down. So, that’s nice. Oh, one […]
Seven years ago, I found an apple tree the porcupine planted up the hill. You can read my original post here: https://okanaganokanogan.com/2014/10/20/porcupine-the-gardener/ I thought it was nice and firm and a bit […]
To look at the water is to look into the mind. Really. Look. Sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, it’s Dihydrogen Oxide in a liquid state, with some weeds growing in it, lightly […]
This is red osier dogwood, or Siberian dogwood, if you will. Have a look at her. Nice work with the star clusters there. Here’s another look: See that? When she grows in […]
So, here’s a change that’s been ongoing for some twenty years now: aspen leaves getting hollowed out by leaf miners, which aren’t getting killed off by cold winters. One sees a lot […]
When it is a fruit. It is aromatic, too… …so much so that when a little is added to apple pie or applesauce, it lifts the whole flavour up. I’m going to […]
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