The wind came up. The ice on Okanagan Lake is busting up and turning upside down and wearing off like stones tumbling in a stream. It’s very beautiful. It’s also very varied. […]
Ice, Wind and Light: Magic
Beautiful Frozen Marmot Breath
Right now, the marmots are sleeping. They are sleeping under this rock, right at the top of the escarpment. The Glaciers Took All the Other Flood Basalt Away The marmots sleep in […]
Reading the Language of Leaves
It’s an easy language to learn, a lot like watching stars. It’s not translatable into human words, but that doesn’t mean it’s not readable by humans. Even writable. I bet you could […]
More Beautiful Ice
Some of the ice I found yesterday is pure art. Here’s a fragment of ice that is acting as a prism, creating blue light out of the early morning. These artworks looked […]
Beauuuuuuuuuuuutiful Ice
What happens when a 135-kilometre-long lake made out of 10,000-year-old melted glacier starts to re-freeze? Spirit! This should be a day off work for the 300,000 people in the valley. We could […]
Beauty in a Roadside Puddle
Life is an arrangement of energies and tensions.It helps to slow them down, as the ice in this roadside puddle did overnight. Perhaps it’s not life that’s the story, but boundaries, where […]
Life in the Snow
Here’s a piece of a cliff, a rare remnant of the Chilcotin Basalt that the glaciers didn’t scour away this far south. These rocks flowed on top of the land and set […]
The Seventh Dimension
Yesterday, I explored six dimensions of bodies on the grasslands. I’d like to show you the seventh today. I’d like to talk about ethics. Let me introduce you to one of the […]
Introduction to the Sixth Dimension
I’ve been talking about human bodies in the grassland, represented as lines, fields and houses. I think it’s very important at this point of human domination over a living planet to overturn […]
Creative Space in Iceland
I’d like to show you a post I just made for my Icelandic blog, because it links to ideas about creativity I played with here a couple days ago. Those ideas link […]
Okanagan Okanogan 