This is when we who live here are simultaneously closest to the earth and living among the stars. Summer can’t beat this!
Winter Sun in the Okanagan
Who Are We, Where Have We Come From, Where Are We Going To?
This is an image of Sybille von Cleves as a young woman in 1526, painted by Lucas Cranach the Elder. source It is not the woman who is named Sybille von Cleves. […]
At Home in the Earth Community
Like the grass on the Big Bar Esker below, I don’t live in the straight beams of light. I live at the continuity of points of intersection with them, which bend in […]
Book, Man, Woman, Land, God
A long time ago, there was an attempt to speak the language of the world. Ultimately, it came to look like this: Gutenberg Bible of 1455 The idea was that that book […]
The Garden Lives
Happy New Year!
Beauty, Art and the Self
Beautiful, isn’t it. This, too. Note the patterning in this kind of thing. Sure, it was carefully framed, but oh so many frames were possible. They all have pattern. They’re all beautiful. […]
First Steps Towards the New Sun
Perspective matters. Was that light playing on water? Is this, below? They are one, but only when my body and mind are one. They are different at the same time. This difference is […]
Winter Flowers and Spring Flowers
The moods of flowering plants are in the whole plant and concentrate in more than just its blooms or fruit. These bud shells, for instance … … are as much blooms as the […]
Mother Sculpin
Let us praise the little rock fish, the Columbia Sculpin, cottus hubsi… … and let us praise the snow that reveals her on the shore of Okanagan Lake, that 135 kilometre long story […]
The Pleasures of Winter
The pleasures of winter are born in spring and harvested in Autumn. Then comes memory, and then the old year again in a new form. Choke Cherries in September, Big Bar Lake […]
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