Another day of Autumn fishing waits in the Cariboo grasslands. Fish like living in the grass, too!
The Last Loon of the Year is Learning to Fly
Water is key. And air. And incentive. Time for all divers to go to sea.
Bear Picking
Not many berries this year. Very small kinnikinnik berries, and that’s about it. And not a lot of them. Berry patch mostly rock, too. Still, the pickers come. … and go. […]
What Exactly IS Global Warming Anyway
The earth is warming, globally. There are many factors for this warming, including carbon emissions, methane emissions and urbanization (which changes light absorption patterns), among others, likely even including long-term non-human cycles, but […]
Birth and Life in the Grasslands
In the grasslands of the intermountain west, a seed doesn’t need to be planted in the soil. It falls into a crack in the living skin of the earth, which grows over […]
The Hidden Water of the Grasslands
A grassland slope… Big Bar Esker (An Esker is a river that ran upside down beneath glacial ice.) Flowers in Big Bar Lake. Grassland ground up on the esker… That’s not […]
The Ice Age is Still Here
Ice dropped a stone two miles to its bed. Lichen came. It’s still here. Grass came. It’s still here. Trees have come and gone how many times with fire and wind? Two hundred? Five […]
Creation is Now
Water flows.Sometimes this flowing takes 100,000 years. Here’s the bed of a glacier from 12,000 years ago, under the deepest part of the continental ice. This was the divide. 2 miles of […]
Grassland is Water Too
Otter Marsh by Big Bar Lake
Life (and chipmunks)
Fire comes from the centre of the solar system. Water comes from the edge of the solar system. They meet on earth. You would think they might extinguish each other, but no. […]
