Here’s a pair of poplar flower brackets, showing us the origins of economy. If you look at the buds, you can see they come in groups of one, all dark and pointed, […]
Natural Economy
Ice, Out of this World
Look at the ice I found up on the mountain today! Here’s the ice right beside it: And a few more centimetres to the left. Isn’t that beautiful! The bottom image appears […]
Minding the Earth
To look at the water is to look into the mind. Really. Look. Sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, it’s Dihydrogen Oxide in a liquid state, with some weeds growing in it, lightly […]
Okanagan Falls in Shadow and Starlight
Here’s the bank and flat of the old lakebed high above Okanagan Falls, and the shore the first people here would have walked along in the back, some, what, 12,000 years ago. […]
What Plants (and Rocks) Know
Mustard knows you can fill space with lines. No leaves needed. Nothing grows through this tangle. What you lose in leaf surface, you gain in airflow, which prevents some of the rusts […]
It’s About Gravity
The old grass finds the Earth so the new grass can find the sun. The cottonwood catkins find the Earth so that their flowers and seeds can spread out and catch the […]
Does Water Make Soil? Ancient and Modern Views Take on the Great Mixer
From a pre-modern point of view, water, left to sit, will create soil. From a modern point of view, soil, suspended in water, settles out when the water stills. Some Very Nice […]
Life on a Spinning Spherical Earth
There is no up or down, only an orientation to a pool of iron travelling around a star. The “up”, “down” and “middle”, and the “linear” and “spherical” shapes are your mind […]
Creatures of the Sky and Creatures of the Wind
Stkcxwiɬp beings are so much sky creatures … stkcxwiɬp, or “Red Willow” in Priest Valley …that they are only holding onto the earth so their roots can breathe the sky within it, […]
Pacific Wild Currant Having a Great Day in the Sun
These wild currants were just humming with bees today. None were domestic bees. Bumblebees and some mid-sized black ones, very sleek. For the first time in years, no insect pests, no damaged […]
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