Some people just can’t help gardening. Take the local porcupines, for instance. They love to chaw down on the pile of cull apples a farmer dumps at the top part of his property, […]
Porcupine the Gardener
The Art That Insects Make
In the summer, light strikes the leaves of the dogwoods unevenly, as they flit about in their environment of light and shadow filtering through other leaves that move and shift with sun […]
Betraying the Earth
Good intentions are not enough. Contemporary systems of governmental organization and the structures that support them ensure that principles of conservation can become something else entirely. The Government of Canada is currently […]
What Trees are For
Trees exist to bring light into darkness, to immerse it in liquid and draw it down into the darkness of the earth. Following the light through all the faces of a tree is […]
I Love Sumac
That’s just the way it is. What’s not to love with music like this? Autumn: Sumac Time When you see that colour bleeding up the scree slopes until it brushes the snow, […]
Give Thanks for the Porcupine
Well met on the coyote trail. (It’s a big pic, just click it.) The world we share… Fruit for us, bark for her.
Romantic Images of Autumn
It is possible to read land by colour. The Douglas firs on the ridge line below are ready to pass through the coming winter. So are the yellow choke cherries in the […]
Of Fog and Human Bondage in the Okanagan Valley
Fog up high. Fog down low. Yes, grass. It’s as much a pressure condensation as airborne water. Fog up high and down low together. Fog in the gully (Bushes squeezed out of […]
What is Asparagus Really?
Or is that asparagus math?Pretty cool, either way! Music, math … these are just words. Art? No. Just a word. But, without words, what? That wordless point is where we’re headed. If […]
The Most Beautiful Apple of Them All
Joy! Here she is… the Benvoulin apple. Lost, and then re-found. I left this apple in 1992, when I moved north, hoping that other people would care for her, but things being the way […]
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