Men have been digging at the hill to make a level place to build houses, and have put up a wall of blasted rock to hold the hill back. Note the deer. […]
The Redfish Come Home
Things are pretty great on Redfish Creek above the over-deepened trough of Kootenay Lake these days. The kokanee have come home. The work of mixing the sun with the earth and the […]
The Last Hurrah
The world is burning this summer, but, darn it, some people are still going to have fun. Smoke be damned. It can hardly be about romance. Grim determination, perhaps. I dunno. I […]
Pick Your Camoflauge!
Blend in. Or look like you blew in on the wind. And hang on. That’s the way.
Total Eclipse of the Sun … Whenever You Want!
When it gets too hot and bright out … … there is always the dark. Spider runs the solar shuttle best.
The Dragon of Okanagan Lake
After nearly two months without a sky, only smoke, the dragon showed itself four nights ago. Tonight, it is once again obscured in smoke. I sure miss the sky! I never realized […]
How The Sun Makes Rich Soil
It’s simply beautiful how it is done. First, water sorts out the finest grains of silt, and deposits them on the surface of low points in the earth, filling them in. Then […]
Alfalfa Walking
When you rely on animals brushing up against your seeds, or pecking at them, to knock them to the soil, it’s best to fall over with the weight of your flowers, so […]
Who Will Decide Claims for This Land
White folks make land claims, too, even right next to the sacred hills of the Sinlahekin. It’s not just for the Sinlahekin, or the Methow, over the hill in the distance. If […]
A Proposal for Nature Tourism for the Okanagan
This wetland beauty is what a real tourism is made of. I witnessed busloads of Asian tourists scattered across pastures in Iceland, to take pictures of exquisite light. The timing, the location, […]
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