Here’s what the City of Kelowna (the big smoke down the valley) says about public art. Ahem… Public art is about more than beautification. Public art stimulates, entertains, instructs and, occasionally, provokes […]
Kelowna: a Tale of Two Cities
The Art of Stopping
Everything in this image stopped. Still Life, Turtle Mountain Including the image. Yet, take a look at the walnut shell. Every time I look at it, I see it stop just now. […]
A Preying Mantis and Her Eggs
She’s beautiful, isn’t she. Hiding out in the clover and all the grass stalks and the knapweed tangles and all. Preying Mantis in the Weeds She had a friend with her, but […]
Reading the Sky
For perhaps 16000 years on the North Pacific islands called Haida Gwaii, the Haida people lived just above the intertidal zone. They were creatures of the sea, like clams, safe in the […]
A Walk Through the Grass or The Goddess Takes Many Forms
Tra la la, I go up the hill. Ah, people are already here, I see. It’s good to have company and good to go on alone. Bella Vista And it’s good to […]
Jezersko Village
My friend Tamara in her botanical garden in Slovenia noted yesterday that some of the images in my post a few days ago about Big Bar Lake on the Cariboo Plateau could […]
The Garden at Night
Ah, the August Moon, with her old face above the black hills, riding clouds as she has since humans first looked up to the night. Nectarine Moon I used to walk out […]
Water, Time and Loons
Ah, what great stuff water is. When the sun mixes with it like spiritual smoke, you can sort of see through it… It looks a bit like a polaroid photograph of the […]
Living Water on the Chilcotin Plateau
Some landscapes are made by wind. Not these ones in the Chilcotin Basalt, inland from the glacially-carved volcanic arc of the Coast Mountains. Big Bar Eskers This is where the glaciers melted […]
When the Sun Goes Under the Earth
… and comes back up, it looks like this. Carpenter Ant, Big Bar Lake, Chilcotin Basalt I have seen these guys walk through walls of flame and across red-hot coals. That’s the […]
Okanagan Okanogan 