In Canada, the apple’s desire to attract animals is put behind fences. Should any animal get in other than a human, it is killed. The law allows for this. The apple, however, […]
Whose Apples Are They Anyway?
The Unofficial Vernon City Dump(s)
While we’re all limiting contact with other humans because contact can kill us, it’s a fine time to consider what other poisonous contact we are having. For example: On What Planet is […]
True Sociability Knows No Bounds
Apples have a social relationship with humans, bears, horses, deer, porcupines, mice, voles, gophers and birds. In Canada, this is called an environmental relationship. Canada also calls this either a prey relationship […]
You Know Those Leaves You Raked Away Last Fall?
In retrospect, perhaps it was a little anti-social.
Where Do Cherries Come From?
Cherries come from trees is a simple answer, and blossoms a bit more exact, but look: You’re looking at blossoms erupting from the intersection between last year’s wood and the wood of […]
Where is the Sun? On Earth!
See, here’s the thing about the globe in the sky. You can make it yours, as the Oregon grape does in bloom… … or you can gather it in as the […]
The Pointlessness of Herbicides, or For the Love of Laziness
Herbicides are drugs for the mind. Here’s what a family down the road has done to give themselves a fix, and to take care of the Earth’s pesky problem of being alive […]
The People of the Wind
Willows are creatures of the sky. Appropriately, if I wander through them and look up, I see the sky through them, broken into small gaps. That is appropriate. The sun is a […]
Thinking with Shadows
Shadows are great. You can walk right through them. You can feel them pass over you like a cool hand. They are the space an object blocks from a source of light, […]
Another Tree Triumph at Splatsin
This old apple tree was chopped back to stubs something around ten years ago, and then let grow out. When I came to her, she was so dense you couldn’t see through […]
