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Grassland Education: Reducing Climate Risk 8
Becoming History in the Okanagan
Ten New Commercial Fruit Crops for the Okanagan
The Waxwings are Here!
The Best Classroom Ever
Ponderosa Pines: The Van Goghs of the Leaf World
Instinct at Work and Play
Climate Resilience in Okanagan Agriculture 4: Rewilding Apples
Okanagan Chestnuts
Sagebrush's Generosity

Time Travellers, Dancers, and Evolution

By Harold Rhenisch on December 20, 2012 • ( 1 Comment )

Instead of a science that looked at precise instants in time, constructed out of exact measurements of the kind that gave civilization (so to speak) photography, the poet Goethe proposed a science […]

Natural Lenses

By Harold Rhenisch on December 19, 2012 • ( 1 Comment )

  The human eye is a lens. It is a just one among many adaptations of the energy fields of water molecules. Water lenses abound on this planet. Cat Tail and Water […]

Seeing Through Rock

By Harold Rhenisch on December 19, 2012 • ( 2 Comments )

How do you know there’s a lake behind the hill? Like this: View Over the Commonage Towards Kalamalka Lake, Vernon Just keep watching. That’s the trick. View Over the Commonage Towards Kalamalka […]

Sacred Water

By Harold Rhenisch on December 16, 2012 • ( Leave a comment )

Molten Snow, Okanagan Landing After six hours of sun. Twenty minutes before sundown. Horizontal light.

Living Water

By Harold Rhenisch on December 15, 2012 • ( Leave a comment )

Mix overnight snow, late morning sun, dry air and mid-afternoon shadow, and, ta da! Bugs Well, OK, energy fields built from the molecular bonds of water molecules at any rate. In so […]

Life is a Form of Water

By Harold Rhenisch on December 14, 2012 • ( Leave a comment )

The universe is consistent. When the solar system formed, light molecules, such as water, spun off to the outer edges, where they formed comets. A billion and a half years later, the […]

Travelling Time

By Harold Rhenisch on December 13, 2012 • ( 2 Comments )

This is the season of travellers. A couple hundred showed up yesterday, as the last of the sun burst in under the clouds, with its deep orange rays come in horizontally from […]

The Nature of Photography

By Harold Rhenisch on December 12, 2012 • ( 5 Comments )

A camera lens is a device for making images of light. It does not capture the light, as leaves can do. It does not do the other things that a human eye […]

A Science of Colour and the Art of Science

By Harold Rhenisch on December 12, 2012 • ( 2 Comments )

I’ve been walking around these last couple days as the earth turns its shoulder away from the sun and the sun comes in lower and lower angles through the grass, sometimes just […]

A World of Colour

By Harold Rhenisch on December 10, 2012 • ( 1 Comment )

If Isaac Newton could remove colour from human experience of the world and silence it as a subject of scientific investigation simply by reducing it to a pattern of mathematics, and … […]

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I am working at rebuilding human relationships to the earth, growing the global from the local and developing new environmental technologies out of close observation of the land. The land is the watershed and run of the Okanagan River in the North American West, and the Chilcotin and Columbia volcanic plateaus and basins that surround it. It is the goal of this blog to build the future now and to do it through attention to art, earth, science and beauty, so that there is, actually, a future for our children and a path for them to feel out their way to the earth should they ever find themselves in the dark. The project will lead to two book manuscripts in the summer of 2013, one on the salmon of the Okanagan River, the last major run on the Columbia system, and the other on the connection between the Manhattan Project and the political and industrial face of Eastern Washington and Southern British Columbia. They will do so within the broader context of land-based technologies, in forms that are simultaneously art and science. In this land without borders, there is no international line at the 49th parallel, cutting our country in two, and no imagined wall between settler and indigenous cultures. We are all walking together. We are all the land speaking.
  • Grassland Education: Reducing Climate Risk 8
  • Becoming History in the Okanagan
  • Ten New Commercial Fruit Crops for the Okanagan
  • The Waxwings are Here!
  • The Best Classroom Ever
  • Ponderosa Pines: The Van Goghs of the Leaf World
  • Instinct at Work and Play
  • Climate Resilience in Okanagan Agriculture 4: Rewilding Apples
  • Okanagan Chestnuts
  • Sagebrush's Generosity

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