For 9000 years, this skull has guided people on the esker trail between the mountains and the lakes Big Bar Lake Esker These people were not, and are not, British Columbians. They […]
The Land Makes the People that Makes the Land
Canadian Safe Boating Rules
Because Canadians are excellent swimmers… Common Loon, the Quintessential Canadian … they need no lifejackets. They just impede the freedom of the swimming wings. Commoner Loon, the Quintessentialer Canadian Plus, sitting prevents […]
Paintbrush Has a Visitor
It’s great when you put yourself out there and wait and wait and wait… … and then one day the guests come. Thanks for visiting my blog, eh!
Big Old Glacial River
Glacial rivers might have been cold places once. Now that they are mature, they are warm, and blooming, too. It’s a fun thing to walk in these crevices in the 2-kilometre-thick ice… […]
Remember the Beetle-Killed Forests?
The devastation of the Western Pine Bark Beetle. That was news 15 and 20 years back. The end of the world. A global catastrophe. Fire would follow. And so on. A quarter […]
Queen of the Forest
As this is an image of an encounter with the foundation of the Earth and the Universe itself, a clear view into the whirlpool, it needs no explanation and would be lessened […]
What to Do When Your Apple Pie Gets Hailed On
It was fifteen minutes of hail around 1.5 centimetres in diameter, so, like, way too big for apples that were only 3 centimetres across. I did what we all have to do […]
Random Bug Control
This is an example of the “if it comes out of the ground, who am I to say it doesn’t belong there” style of gardening. Tomatoes hate this approach, but, as you […]
Summer Radishes Don’t Grow Under the Ground
Great radish crop in the heat now. The image below shows a small part of the haul from one plant, ripening beautifully. In the spring, they put their heat in a swollen […]
Peach Harvest Begins
When I was six years old, I went from farm to farm with my father, and watched as he and the other men in town sliced open peach blossoms to see how […]
Okanagan Okanogan 