This is an awfully wonderful planet — sometimes delightfully so. Here is a typical reed dweller… Red Winged Blackbird Giving Me the Eye The weak colour of his wing patch indicates that […]
Muskrats That Live in the Trees
Sharing the Planet
Canada Geese. Used to be they migrated south. Now? Not so much. They hang around and poop on beaches and … eyew. Up here in Vernon, they also hang around in orchards […]
Go, Ogopogo, And Don’t Come Back No More!
There is a legend from the time when the British Empire owned this corner of North America, that says that the local people, the Syilx, claimed there was a monster in the […]
Idle No More
The Idle No More movement has my full support. Incredibly enough, the Prime Minister of Canada and his Indian Affairs Minister, both tasked with the care of the Queen’s subjects and her […]
Farms For All
Welcome to purslane, a nutritious vegetable used extensively in Middle Eastern cooking, so native to the region that it sprouts up in the cracks of sidewalks and is harvested from there … […]
Water, the Inuit and Everyone
The road is long. It is worth travelling. The road is hard. It must be taken. These aren’t proverbs. They are signposts on the road to environmental reconstruction of human social relationships […]
Gripple Apples
Gripple. Nice word. It has an active form, too: grippling. These old words don’t hang out in a dictionary, though, and Google is hopeless with them, but you can find them in […]
The Story So Far
Two things for you today: a cool monolith from the Peshastin Pinnacles, and the complete pdf version of my summary of my year wandering in the grass, which I presented to the […]
Homeless in Vernon
How could this happen? Homeless in Vernon How could this happen, in between a highway bypass, a rail line, and a marsh? Really? Not even under the sheltering limbs of the elm […]
That Old Watery Moon: A Year of Walking and Learning
Moon’s hanging around all day now. Frost in the tomatoes by the lower fence. Potatoes in the cellar. Light everywhere. Earth and Moon with Human Signature Humans are life. They love views […]
Okanagan Okanogan 