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 […]
Alfalfa Walking
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, […]
Invisible Deer
Well, she thinks so!
Of Butterflies and Ethics
If I had done the ethical thing and turned the land surrounding my house into a desert of rocks to conserve water, this butterfly would not have come today to feed. All […]
What Colour is a Damselfly Anyway?
Note how the damselfly in the water is tall and full of energy, while the one on the butt of the birch log is weary and weighed down by the weight of […]
The Eclipse of the Peach
The sun was too bright to look at, even in 90% eclipse today, but I got a couple images for you. First, a peach in my garden taken at full eclipse, against […]
Weaving the Environment
So, what of it, eh. If settlement had taken a different turn and adapted to local cultural knowledge and traditions, and “colonialism” wasn’t even a word, what would we see if we […]
California Quail Goes Gardening
Thanks for Sundays!
Indigenous or Non-Indigenous? A Field Guide.
To be Indigenous means you come from the land, and are of the land. This land, for example. This is an outcropping on Turtle Ridge in Vernon. Note the red lichen stains. […]
Okanagan Okanogan 