On March 29, 1781, the philosopher Immanuel Kant sat at his writing desk in Königsberg, East Prussia, and opened his new book, A Critique of Pure Reason. Spring clouds were building over […]
Of Kant and the Environment
Okanagan Lake Climbs into the Sky
Really. Look at it hanging there at the level of the mountaintops, and no more. Boiling off, really!
Surfing in the Sky
These days with layers of air sliding over each other … …are great ones for watching the clouds tell stories. Isn’t that a dog surfing, there?
Winter Begins
A week ago at Big Bar Lake, winter began. The whole sky flew straight up. And then only quiet was left. Let’s call that readiness.
Wasps at Sea
Wasps aren’t just creatures of the air. They ride the waters like sailboats. And what waters! They last a day, then the sun takes them away. But in the meantime, the wasps […]
Green Summer Lightning
Energy building in the sky. Seven hours later, a bolt of lightning arced from the earth to meet it. It’s not so unusual. It happens all the time, in many forms.
The Tides Wash Over Turtle Mountain
When plants left the sea for the air… … they didn’t. We live in an intertidal zone. Ah, here comes the first breaker of the tide now… Here’s the surf rolling East […]
A Sky Map of the City of Coldstream
Downtown Coldstream, on the valley bottom north of Kalamalka Lake, is the hole in the centre of this map of clouds. The ribbed clouds below it are the eastern edge of its […]
The Dragon of Okanagan Lake
After nearly two months without a sky, only smoke, the dragon showed itself four nights ago. Tonight, it is once again obscured in smoke. I sure miss the sky! I never realized […]
One Sky or Another
Or two at once. Hello from down at the bottom of the pool. Anyway you shake it, we are trout looking up.
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