Magpie double nester along the Grey Canal Trail in Vernon. Nice, huh! Orchard and mountain view.
Okanagan Real Estate Bidding Wars
If you’ve ever met a goose, you’ll understand. If you’ve never met a goose, welcome to the fun.
Fly-Fishing Guide for Newcomers to the Okanagan
When salmon come back to the rivers from the sea, they cease to feed, but will snap at beautifully-tied flies out of reflex, and are hooked. Well, ya. Wouldn’t you bite at […]
Reviewing David Pitt-Brooke’s Walk Through the Grasslands
I spent the early winter reading a beautiful and, unfortunately, incomplete book: Crossing Home Ground, by David Pitt-Brooke. It records an epic walk through the grasslands of Southern British Columbia: my own […]
And Yet People Complain About Winter. Huh.
Why? Isn’t it beautiful? Maybe they should leave the north and go home. I feel so sorry for them. They have to endure this: And this: It must be very hard. I […]
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 […]
Sustaining the Okanagan 21: The City of the Okanagan
In keeping with my conviction that we would do better to build things than tear them down, I would like to propose a new form of civilization in the Okanagan Valley. By […]
The Canadian Invasion
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Do the Rich Have All the Fun?
You tell me. That’s their houses up above, and some beautiful ice drifting in. Below, is Okanagan Lake the next day after the wind did its thing all night long. I have […]
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 […]
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