A little bit of European flair goes a long way. Invasive species? European Collared Dove and Fungus-Struck Black Walnut Well, aren’t we all. Show your stuff. That’s the way!
What, You Thought It Was Still Winter?
Against the Descending Night, A Prayer in the Rushes
I am not angry. I am sad. My elders taught me that these were cat tails. They taught me that poetry was a fairy tale. They taught me that these were swamp […]
Humans and Geese and Weather and Geese and Humans and Geese
Canada geese always push their ability to withstand weather by coming back from migration wayyy too early in the spring and then toughing it out. That come-too-early thing is what Canada geese […]
Yellow Clover Walking Across the Face of the Sun
Every yellow clover waits for five minutes as a star of birds. When the birds leave, it leaves with them now.
The Grasslands and Free Will
I saw something beautiful today. Want to see? Just follow my footsteps. Trudge trudge trudge. Here we go… Before the snow comes, the grass is dense. It sways in the wind. Just […]
Rodent Breath is Best
Snow everywhere, right? Whew! Actually no. Around 20% of the land has no snow at all. There’s a whole world down there! Here’s the entrance to a weasel’s den. Here’s the sun […]
The Real Work is to Take Down the Fences
The task is to provide young people with support for their energy and visions, and space for them to open them into physical and social expression. All young people have a need […]
The Okanagan’s Missing Water
Here it is. Blue Bunch Wheatgrass This 10-year-old re-seeded slope shows the likely historical condition of the valley under Syilx stewardship. This grass is very much alive. The valley hasn’t looked like […]
Learning Elvish
You can measure the hardness of iron by how easily it drives through a softer metal, but you can’t measure its iron-ness. You can measure the nature of elvish landscapes, but not […]
The Road Home
Nature is a pretty thing. A bit of death mixed with birth makes it perfect. If you think “The Garden of Eden,” yup, that’s about right. But these are just words, […]
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