Sure, the story of carbon emissions is the global warming story, but there’s also the story of the warming that comes from urbanization, and there’s the story that comes from the warming […]
Let’s Get Serious About Global Warming
Planet of Fire
This is no ordinary planet we live on. I think it’s best to walk outside and take a look … There are many flames, new and old, in this photograph of Middleton […]
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. […]
Canada and the Okanagan
Canada does not deserve this land. It burns it… Forest Fire Smoke Over Okanagan Landing … it tries to make it hotter than it is … Plasticized Soil (Weeds, plastic, clay), […]
The Sun Rises
The heart rises with it. Sunrise Over the White Lake Hills That’s the way it is on this earth, for creatures born to it.
When the Sun Goes Under the Earth
… and comes back up, it looks like this. Carpenter Ant, Big Bar Lake, Chilcotin Basalt I have seen these guys walk through walls of flame and across red-hot coals. That’s the […]
Fire and Ants
Remember that fire? Grass burnt to the end of its story a couple weeks back? Only living thing left a few grasshoppers deep into the first stage of the grieving process and soon […]
Fire in the Grass!
Bit of a grass fire here the other day. Young guy with a lighter. Wondered what it might do. Found out. Too many generations since there was fire here. Hard to remember to […]
Fire, Art, and Global Warming
Despite vital talk of global warming and increased carbon levels from burning, one thing remains certain and even more primary: the earth is a world of fire. The oxygen that plants separate […]
The Joke is On Us
It’s that time of year! An Old Tradition Hangs On Despite the infill of subdivisions, old habits of spring burning aren’t dead yet. The bigger the flames the better, it seems. Sun […]
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