Not “all the land around a river” but the river. Not lines on a map drawn to separate armies or to delineate no-fire zones.. A living thing. So were the Wanapum of […]
Imagine if Your Country Was A River
Why We Need Treaties
I live in a place that illegally occupied land, and signed no treaties for it. Here we are at an old village site on the Commonage Claim above Kalamalka Lake. A parking lot! […]
Pebbles and Leaves of Light
Pebbles. Leaves (well, ovals with a spine). That’s what a ripple on the surface of water can do. Intriguingly, stones are rounded in ripples of water, and leaves, which eat […]
The Mystery of Leaves
Look how much more brightly the one leaf glows than the grass, which is eating light. Leaves in a Small Wetland on the Grey Canal Trail Its light-eating days are over. […]
Life is the Edge
… Here’s an image of water, made with light. Here’s an image of light, made by water: Nice game, huh. The real story is that both are edges, at which light […]
Water Brings Time to Life
…One of the moods of water, I suggested yesterday, is life. Here’s another: Okanagan Lake (Looking West towards Ewings Landing) It still looks full of life. Now here is some of it […]
Climbing The Waterfall
On Friday, I talked about The Moods of Colour. In short, I argued that the different plants, lichens and rock in the image below were all different moods of light, different levels of […]
Bald Eagles Flirting in the Okanagan
There’s nothing like a hunt for mice and housecats …. … for romance. Form helps. And doing it together. (Even though one has to work to keep up.)
The Moods of Colour
Look at the colour of this water. Pretty nice stuff, for sure. Look at the colour of this water. Fun stuff, isn’t it. And this water. Why, it’s hardly there! And this…It’s coming to […]
How the Mind and the Earth are One
Thatch and sod grass rising.Bunchgrass rising. Water bunch grassing. Sky bunch grassing. Lichen following the gaps between the bonds of water (which are part of water.) Balsam root lichening (in […]
Okanagan Okanogan 