As the snow sifted down yesterday afternoon, the waxwings appeared, just in time. They settled in the poplars down the road, looking like winter blossoms. These most wonderful birds devour all the […]
The Waxwings are Here!
God and Evolution in the Age of Information
I’ve been showing you patterns in the leaves, and patterns of birds. Here they are together. One version of the theory of evolution holds that it’s all survival of the fittest, that […]
Wild Cherry Harvest
Whose cherries are these? Choke Cherries in a Gully, Okanagan Landing Whose are these? These Ones are Sweeter, but the Skins are More Bitter Not mine. Someone Wasn’t Using a Ladder Ooomph! […]
What is This Amazing Insect (if it is an insect)?
I have never seen anything like this before, ever. It’s like a cross between a wasp and a preying mantis. I found her today on a choke cherry tree growing alone in […]
Traffic Jam on the Coyote Highway
So, I’m tripping down my favourite Coyote Road, right, admiring the black choke cherries and paying way too much attention to a hawk that’s taking a vole home and is getting harried […]
Drunk in the Garden
Harold goes away to Palouse Falls and to the painted turtles of Conconully, and it is mighty fine, but summer is two weeks early this year, right, which means that when he […]
When the Sun Sets It’s Time to Make a Bed of Wild of Thistles
In Palouse Falls, the world of the heart below the falls is separated from the world of dream above it. Here is a thistle plant at dusk in the world of the […]
A Short Meditation on Crows
What’s so special about crows?Poufy Fluff Note: this is the male.
Slow Food: Robin Waiting for Dinner
This robin’s first brood were two such big louts that I think they burst their nest. Certainly, they fell to the ground, where she fed them for a week until they were […]
Writing for the Future: An Ecology of the English Language
I wrote this for my writing blog, Witual, today, and thought that while I compile a post about new vegetables for the Okanagan, you might like to have a look about how […]
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