If you want warmth in the late winter, it’s best to leave the ice of the valley floor, pretty as it is. Sunrise on Okanagan Lake Up high, it’s as warm as […]
Watching the Creation of the Universe
I Am the Mountain
Today, let’s go on a little journey to my home valley, the Similkameen. I’d like to show you the link between a part of the earth, my recent posts on photography and […]
Bringing the Sky Down to Earth
The image below is a habitat for Canadians. I am one of those. We build structures out of trees we allow to grow as weeds on indigenous land, and line them with […]
Memory and Life
Ice has memory. Every moment of its long creation. That memory interacts with the present. Blue Sky in the Ice Is thought any different? Is art any different? Is beauty? Sleep […]
Discovering Blue
The blue you see here is the sky early in the morning, when the sun is white and comes in nearly horizontally from the east. Here’s a better view… As you can […]
There is More Than One Sun and More than One Earth
In 1543, Copernicus published this book and changed everything: De Revolutionisis Orbi Before he did that, the Earth was considered the centre of the universe. After he was done, the sun was […]
Living in the Sun
Look at how the water bends around the feet of these water striders. It’s like walking on an electrical force field. We call it “reflections on a lake”, but this is the […]
A Tiny Lexicon of Indigenous Language
Supernova… Clover In the shamanic traditions of the grasslands, the ground we walk upon is also the other world, where the dead walk among the stars. It is only a frozen shell […]
Evolution and the Colour Blue
Take a look. The colour blue is the one first seen out of darkness. Look at it … The Rise Vineyard, Bella Vista Our fences can’t hold it, nor can they hold […]
Art and Life
Art doesn’t belong to humans, but human art has consequences. Here is an art form made by sun and water… Rainbow Over Vernon Object or process? Why must one choose? It’s like […]
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