Ten centimetres of snow fell last night. The wet season has begun. The snow falls, it evaporates, it falls, it evaporates, it falls, it evaporates, and so on, etcetera, etcetera, et cet […]
Honouring Snow
The Spirit of the Land
All the waiting was worth it. OK, sure, these royal gala apple trees are pruned hard at their tips to draw heavily fertilized water up past the weak fruiting wood below and are […]
Sunflowers and Blackbirds
I decided to speed up the drying of my sunflower seeds by taking them off of all their pretty heads. Look at the colour variation from one seed packet! I tried a […]
Writing With the Land
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 […]
Earth Bucks: A New Economic Model
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 […]
Fall Colour
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 […]
The Starlings are Restless
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 […]
Fun, Food and Respect with Pumpkins
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 […]
Extra Fancy, Fancy, Commercial, Peeler, Hunh?
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 Apples
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 […]
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