What about the horses, eh? Pretty intriguing creatures to share a planet with. You saw them yesterday, recolonizing the mistake of an orchard at Kiona, after the seduction of cheap water evaporated […]
Horses and Almond Trees and True Love
Wine, Salmon and Whisky Trading
Here’s a story about salmon, wine, and watching the water flow. It’s about how to find a site for a vineyard. It’s about how to get the land to speak. Or how […]
Wine for Easter
Wine is one third grape juice, one third marketing, and one third je ne sais quoi. Here’s some of the latter… Native American Ancestral Ring Hillcrest Winery, Umqua Valley, Oregon High quality […]
The Biggest Waterfall of All
So, just imagine. You’re beetling along happily across the wheat fields of the Washington desert after a freak spring snow, getting passed by giant fertilizer trucks every time you stop to take […]
The Centre of the World
Just below Horse Thief Butte, at the eastern gate of the Columbia Gorge, lies the centre of the world. Here it is before it was flooded by the Dalles Dam: Deep Net Fishing at […]
The Horse Thief’s Garden
One of the most stunning headlands left along the Columbia River is Horse Thief Butte. It was a major village site for as long as there were salmon in the river. There […]
Beyond Nature
There’s something going on that is very old and very beautiful. Here it is above the ancient salmon stream now called the Wenatchee River: Clown in the Rock Orchard Bluff, Peshastin Pinnacles […]
Social Energy
Trees are great energy machines, transforming the nuclear fusion reactions of the sun into matrices of carbon and water. How cool is that? Here’s what that energy looks like when it leaks […]
Buddha’s Secret Army
When a house is built on a grassland hill to lure retirement and holiday property investments (golf membership thrown in, and a “vineyard to age gracefully in” and what a view) and […]
Birds Made of Light
Humans are living creatures, which I think is pretty grand. I hope we can keep it that way. There are some side effects of living, though. For one, it makes us likely […]
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