Today, Wednesday, October 26, I’ll be using my collection of East German photographs to anchor a talk about the garden at the heart of all modern universities, and the key role that […]
The University and the Garden
Chikamin Pish
It’s steelhead season. These famed ocean-going trout, the greatest sport fish of the Pacific Northwest, come back every year to spawn. Unlike their cousins, the salmon, they then turn around and go […]
The Mystery of the Birds Deepens
On Saturday, I pointed out that the birds and bears are absent from the north end of Okanagan Lake. About a hundred miles to the south, it is a different story: Elderberries […]
Where are the Birds?
Used to be that the waxwings, crows, and robins would pretty well pick the land clean down to its bones. And now? The Birds are Gone What is a poor elderberry bush […]
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