Rainbow with a starling. Rainbow with trees. And what would Newton see? God. Mind you, he’d miss the bird and the tree. Oops. Isaac, a human body looks at a rainbow. That’s the point. […]
What if Newton Moved Here and Met a Rainbow Face to Face?
Speaking the Language of the Birds
Raven and the moon … An Old Story The reason that people could once read the language of the birds to tell the future is that if you are a place you […]
The Secret to Contemporary Landscape Design Success
It’s about imagining what might be there, behind the anti-deer netting. Why Bother? I dunno. Check out the beautiful ground cover, too. If you’re wondering what that stuff is, apart from the […]
A Simple Moment Alone with the Earth
The old version: Spring is the season in which plants grow. They make use of a series of adaptations to regulate their growth to a period of year with the combination of […]
Balance
Today, words in praise of bunch grass. The roots of this blue-bunched wheatgrass fill the space between the plants.The soil is their sky. They reach out into it for the clouds of […]
Okanagan Easter Meditation
This is what Easter looks like here. Do you see that? Yeah, no people. Canada is an urban country. It views its land as a resource, to be used to create more urban space. […]
Greetings from the Easter Marmot
Happy Easter! You can trust an animal that goes underground in August and comes up again Mid-April: sun, sun, sun and more sun! Today’s is the 700th post on Okanagan Okanogan. You have […]
Saskatoon Petals Falling on Stone
A self portrait.
Earth Mother Visits the Abandoned Orchard
Looking good, Mrs. Coyote. Always good to see my people out and about, dressed in their going-to-town finery of light.
Industrial Agriculture is Unethical
Earth, or machine. One increases diversity. One reduces it. Or is it so? When the Syilx managed these grasslands with fire and selective harvesting methods, they increased species diversity. The species-rich landscape that the […]
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