Yeah, but they are leaving clouds as gifts. The vineyard, not being used to living here, is unmoved.
The Mountains Are Floating Away
Forget Heavy Water Technology Today
Light water technology works better. Okanagan Lake Rising Up and Washing Over Turtle Point
The Power of Words
If we call this wetland, runoff, mud, rot, ditch or swamp, we are talking about a social relationship to it, and not the thing itself. If we call the beautiful surface of […]
Falling Through the World into the Sun
When I was four years old, I walked around skies like this, for fear of falling through the world. Now I walk around them, carefully, so I don’t disturb the mind that […]
A Sky Map of the City of Coldstream
Downtown Coldstream, on the valley bottom north of Kalamalka Lake, is the hole in the centre of this map of clouds. The ribbed clouds below it are the eastern edge of its […]
Okanagan Woman and Magic
Strange, the things that come in the mail all on their own. There I was reading over coffee, looking over a manuscript about this valley, and thinking about the mail. So I […]
Fall Rain in the Grasslands
So, it rains, right. 35 centimetres of snow have already melted. Now the rain. Rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain. And the sun. Melting stuff, even through the clouds of rain. So, […]
Waiting for Turtles
This log was placed in a wetland near Okanagan Lake in Vernon, for the enjoyment of western painted turtles. Right now, the turtles are hibernating, but look at the pond recreate itself […]
What the Body Knows in Cold and Light
What is pale and drawn out by light and cold is not dead. The life is within, or, rather, it is concentrated, or distilled. When you walk through the cold, every twig […]
Beautiful Round Stones Slowing Down Time
Water makes circles and spheres. Ancient glacial rivers made these. And they slow water down today. Note how the bare soil doesn’t. Amazing!.
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