It is possible to change the world. You can start out with a landscape in which the strategies of plants to capture water, air pressure, gravity and evaporation join to stop water […]
How Water Ignorance Has Changed the World
The Lungs of the Earth
Bunchgrass defines the grasslands of the intermontane west. It is not, however, the main story here. It is only the canopy forest. The real grassland is here. It is far older. It lies […]
Land Crisis in Vernon
Yesterday I showed you an image of an apple crisis. Here it is again, from a different angle. People are so hungry to connect with a farmer over a supermarket that they […]
Apple Crisis in Vernon
Apples for sale by the bag. Looks nice, huh! Look more closely. Here are some Ambrosias. See all that marking? These apples are worth zero. In a modern world of cosmetic fruit, […]
We Are the Earth and the Earth is Us
I want to show you an image of the mind. Since that’s difficult, let me show you an image of the world instead, with my fingers crossed that the mind will be […]
The Tragedy of My Generation… And Its Hope
This is what our parents’ farms largely look like today, after we were taken away by promises of distant glories.This too is an image of war. Our parents came through the Second World […]
Porcupine the Gardener
Some people just can’t help gardening. Take the local porcupines, for instance. They love to chaw down on the pile of cull apples a farmer dumps at the top part of his property, […]
The Art That Insects Make
In the summer, light strikes the leaves of the dogwoods unevenly, as they flit about in their environment of light and shadow filtering through other leaves that move and shift with sun […]
Give Thanks for the Porcupine
Well met on the coyote trail. (It’s a big pic, just click it.) The world we share… Fruit for us, bark for her.
Romantic Images of Autumn
It is possible to read land by colour. The Douglas firs on the ridge line below are ready to pass through the coming winter. So are the yellow choke cherries in the […]
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