Snow looks white and cold. It looks like a cold carpet over the earth. That’s the way a mammal thinks. A mammal has built itself around its own stove. To the creatures […]
Space: the Human Habitat
The Glorious Winter Sun
Today, joy. Way up high, the sun. High up above us, in the shallows of the sea of glorious winter fog Okanagan Lake gives off for the entire length of its 135 kilometre fresh […]
Winter Sun in the Okanagan
This is when we who live here are simultaneously closest to the earth and living among the stars. Summer can’t beat this!
It is Not the Shortest Day, Not Really
The three goddesses of September … … in fact, all five goddesses of September … … have only increased in power. It is not the shortest day. It is the same day in […]
Soil and Water: Children of the Stars
Within a slope constructed at the angle of gravity, that’s to say at the angle that is the balance between the earth’s spin and the concentration of that spin at it’s core, […]
Giant Rye Grass in Its Glory
Grass is a creature of the wind. Of the wind. It’s even pollinated by the wind. It is a sheath for water drawn up by light. It streams in the air. Is […]
The Black Cherries of Winter
It is the time of year when colour leaves the valley. The red choke cherries of summer are black. The skies are grey. The sun we knew in summer is gone. This […]
The Beauty of Spring in November
In November, in Cascadia, it is springtime, whether you are in the wetlands on an island in the ocean … Oyster Bay, Vancouver Island … or far inland, in the grasslands, where […]
It’s Mango Time!
We love you, stag horn sumac. But we love you, smooth sumac more. Oh, Staghorn, you come from Virginia. You knew Hiawatha in your youth. But smooth sumac, daughter […]
The Music of the Sun at Yellowstone
Here are some images of music (or mathematics) from Yellowstone. I know, we’re all used to hearing music, but look: Dramatic stuff! And we’re used to viewing photographs as visual artefacts, I […]
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