During the year the birds did not come back, a quiet year by any account, siya?, or saskatoon as she is also called, still created berries and offered them. May we all […]
A New Year’s Lesson
Sunflower Diplomacy, Human Bargaining
If you call… … they will come. Lunch Time But wait! Humans have a role to play here. These sunflowers originated with a charity giving them away in search of support. The […]
Plateau Living: Flat Out
On the plateau, where land, sky and water are flat, that is to say spread out from a line, like leaves, floating, one lives in the sky. One floats here. One barely […]
Flat Earth Theory in Practice
At sunrise, there is a mountain. The it gets tricky. The sky sort of, well, falls. Not all at once, but darkly. Some of it even goes up! In the end, the […]
Muskrats: the Mammalian Goose
Or is the goose the avian muskrat? These are the big questions. First, the goose, nice and fat. Then the biggest muskrat I’ve ever seen, hanging out with its lunch. Imagine what […]
We Left the House and Garden and Went to the Lily Pads and What Did We See?
It’s good to get out of the house and see the world getting on without us. On Friday, it was an eared grebe in the lily pads on Gardom Lake. It was […]
Organic Aphid Control in the Plum Orchard
Simple. Just wait. Problem solved.
One Bird Can Make Your Day
When is an invasive species not, well, an invasive species? Chinese Elm Fooling Around With Light and Shadow Because it Can I mean, a really invasive species, with a kazillion seeds that […]
If Geese are Noble Beasts, What are Pheasants?
Praise to an orchard that left apples on the ground for the neighbours. The geese are contemplative about it, the robins (to the left) are quiet, the starlings are hidden in the […]
Water Skiing Without a Boat
It can be done. Humans aren’t the only ones who have fun around this place, I tell ya!
