I would like to show you the little valley I live in. I think the future depends on what we see here. Vernon Creek Valley, Okanagan Landing. Okanagan Lake is to […]
How Universities are Causing Global Warming and What to Do About It
Putting a Face to Nature
This is not nature. It is a shrub. This is not nature. It is another shrub. This is not nature. You got it. Another shrub. This is not nature.It’s grass. This is […]
Did You Lose Your Mind? Don’t Worry. I Found It.
Ah, the noble stag, majestically ruling its wild kingdom in parallel to the worlds of men. Here you can see a young mule deer buck framed against a hillside sculpted by humans […]
Irony in the Garden
Here’s my front yard. Note the flowers I have planted instead of a lawn. It has been a very exciting place lately. Dozens of species of bees and many species of beetles […]
The Ethical Dimension
I’d like to talk ethics today, with East Germany in view, though, because it was a society that allowed an alternate vision, not only of what might have been possible (good and bad), but into […]
Colonialism and the University in the Okanagan
The Canadian stretch of the Okanagan-Okanogan is not just the northern tip of a vast intermountain grassland created by the pressure effects of wet air being desiccated on its rise over the […]
Graffiti is Beautiful
Sulfur Cinquefoil Graffiti (government owned electrical substation wall)… And with a little help from her friend Sagebrush… Wild lettuce graffiti, too! With help from Mme. Cheatgrass! Compare the human version: Same thing!
This is the Best Day
The future starts today. The Tsilhqot’in people have been recognized by the Supreme Court of Canada as having title to their own land. It has been a struggle lasting over 140 years. […]
June 24 And Summer Is So Over
Well, either that or it means nothing here in the grasslands of the North American North West. Beautiful, though.The way it busts up concrete is also beautiful, don’t you think?
What is Wild?
Is this smoke bush wild? No. It was planted to give some red colour to a lot of green shrubs. Is the fact that it is growing a “wild” characteristic? Perhaps, but wouldn’t […]
Okanagan Okanogan 