The Big Sage blossoms with its scrubby flower stalks in the fall. There’s not great colour in them, but they do stick way up high. I’ve wondered about that often, with thoughts […]
All the Ladies on the Hill Go Out for Lunch

The Bella Vista Mule Deer Does
Yellow Clover Walking Across the Face of the Sun
Every yellow clover waits for five minutes as a star of birds. When the birds leave, it leaves with them now.
What Time is It?

It’s Beetle Time!
How To Tell If You’re Living in the Sky

When you’re looking at the sky you’re in, no problem. You can’t see it. Then the problems start. How do you tell this sky … … from this one? Is it that […]
Mr. Nobel, You Have a Lot to Answer For

Human spring. Bella Vista Spring. Human spring. Bumblebee Spring. Human Spring. Coyote’s Front Yard Spring. Human Spring. Okanagan Lake Spring. Dynamite Spring. Deer Trail Spring. Grassland spring. Only one is called progress, […]
Butterflies and Meadowlarks on a Cold Spring Day

Windy day up on the hill. No bees, but many flowers making themselves all pretty for them. That’s a beautiful flower. When you’re from this place, it’s the only one for you, […]
First the Seed then the Flower

It begins. Arrow-leafed Balsam Root Looking for the Sun No one Need Look Alone
Fencing the Okanagan Valley

Way up here … 200 metres above the lake in the valley below … … high up in the sky … … there was once a river, that left pebbles half a […]
Porcupine Comes Down to the Orchards

Handsome guy, but it looks like he’s used up a lot of his quills, eh. Must be grim up there in coyote country, but, hey, what’s better than a fermented apple on […]