For three days, we have lived within the fog that has pulled the summer’s heat out of the lake and breathed it out around us. Here’s what that looks like: The World […]
Fog Crows
The Art of Water
Cameras are intriguing machines, that not only capture light, but allow their operators to frame it in a visual space. That space is human. The photographs we take would be useless to […]
Poetic Light
After thinking about water yesterday, and how it is moved from place to place with the sun’s heat, which it stored and gave back again under the soil surface, I went to […]
The Weight of Air
The earth’s surface, where humans live, is a complex interface. Even something as simple as snow is part of a complex energy transfer here. The World of Snow When the apparatus of […]
King of the Grass
I was out on the Commonage today, south of Vernon and above Kalamalka Lake, and found some Giant Wild Rye Grass growing on the road margins of a riparian area. The tallest […]
What Does it Mean to Live on Volcanic Land?
It means that you would do well to throw away the word ‘rock’ and pick something more appropriate, like this example I found on the edge of a nondescript narrow stream bed […]
A Partridge in a Pear Tree? Better!
I love the old song The Twelve Days of Christmas and it’s “PARtridge in a pearRRrrr treee!” And I love pears. But I am wondering if it’s really the right song for a […]
Nuclear Fusion With a Twist
I had an idea about the land. It started in the sky and ended on earth. It went like this. First, a tiny introduction. Nuclear fusion is the process of merging two lighter […]
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