A bad day for flying, too. Ponderosa Pines on Turtle Ridge So, maybe you can still catch a bite, right? In the fall rye? You know, the vegetable field, past and future […]
A Hungry Day
Happy New Year!
It is the year to become sagebrush! Let us have an end to fences this time around! Blessings, all you Cascadians out there!
Family Apartments for Rent in Vernon
Two-newly renovated view apartments available for spring occupancy in prestigious subdivision! First-come, first-served. Rent: $0. No damage deposit required. This property lies adjacent to a popular hiking trail and has a million-dollar […]
Active Space and Negative Space
The sagebrush on the Bella Vista Hills in the North Okanagan creates an active space, which defines the space around it as negative space, or space without sagebrush! It is quite pushy […]
The Turtle of Turtle Ridge
At some point, many years ago, someone built a turtle on Turtle Ridge, between Head of the Lake (yes, a turtle head) and Turtle Mountain, and left it for us to find […]
Cinnamon Bear in the Sagebrush
I thought we’d go and check out the wetland just behind the top of the hill today, and see if the wet spring had put water in it. It has been dry […]
How to Turn the Okanagan Into a Desert
I thought at first this bunchgrass was in such beautiful shape this spring because of a winter of voles fertilizing it while nesting in its thatch. Then I realized that it hasn’t […]
Making Heat and Harvesting Cold: If You Don’t Like the Season, Change it
Let’s revisit an image from a few days back, in which I showed how heat and cold met in a deer trail and a red medicine willow, not to mention a tangle […]
The Difference Between Coyotes and Humans
Check out what Sen’klip nabbed and dropped along his trail. Lovely! Check out what farming looks like in the Okanagan today. Here’s a farmer at work on his farm road in Bella […]
Weeds, Nature, Erosion and Hope. With a Fly, too.
Plants don’t grow in dirt. Well, maybe snow buckwheat. The old glacial river eddy (above) high above Priest Valley had its gravel bed stripped away fifteen years ago. So far, nothing has […]
Okanagan Okanogan 