Writing literature in the contemporary world is largely about reflecting on, amplifying and extending the traditions of literature. Mostly, these traditions are interpreted as the stories of individual consciousness. Those are all […]
Even in dry country, water falls from the sky. Along the way, it imitates gophers. Yes, gophers. Here’s what the gophers are up to: Sorting Rock! It’s the season for moving out […]
I’ve been looking at leaves, or, rather, I’ve been staring into the sun. Really. Take a look: To Travel to the Sun, Visit Your Nearest Pear Tree Forget NASA It wasn’t always […]
Ah, Autumn, season of mists and mellow fruitfulness…That’s what the poet said. Hardly! A Group of Starlings Gather in a Vertical Home Sewage Dissipation Apparatus Keats was right, there’s a lot of […]
First, the unchosen, fated to rot in the field and to be plowed under in the spring… A Pumpkin That Actually Ripens for Halloween is Six Weeks Too Late Bummer Then, the […]
Sometimes I feel that no one is minding the show. Yesterday, I showed some images of the current state of affairs in apple production in the Okanagan. That’s not the half of […]
Gripple. Nice word. It has an active form, too: grippling. These old words don’t hang out in a dictionary, though, and Google is hopeless with them, but you can find them in […]
On the shore of the sea, the water goes up and down. You can walk around out there when the moon drags the ocean all here and there and the sun blows […]
This is how you comb water out of cloud and mist and drizzle (and let your cattle out of a burn zone for a night on the town at the same time). […]
Autumn. It’s the beginning of the glory that is winter. It’s About the Light! Berry farm below Goose Lake, as the sun rises selectively. And just in front of that? See what […]
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