
What a great day at the lake. Taking a break from preparing my next history of the Pacific Northwest for you, I went to Okanagan Lake just as the sun was dipping […]
What a great day at the lake. Taking a break from preparing my next history of the Pacific Northwest for you, I went to Okanagan Lake just as the sun was dipping […]
With this First Quarter of a Moon, I thought, the lake is breathing. Such intimate changes, step by step and wash by wash. In the creek, too. Psychedelic, even! When you look […]
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 […]
Right now, Okanagan Valley tourism centres around wine, beaches, boats, skis, golf, a bit of biking and adventure, a tiny bit of camping, and restaurants, usually with wine or golf or skis. […]
Bit of a thing, it is. The City of Vernon wants to thrash milfoil… … in the lake, because it’s a nasty invasive plant that does a lot of bad things to […]
Reading water is almost easy when it is frozen. Okanagan Lake is a large body of water, 351 square kilometres of it, in fact. To put that in perspective, here are some […]
Really. Look at it hanging there at the level of the mountaintops, and no more. Boiling off, really!
When warmer water strikes in colder air, it brings objects to life, by bringing it across a boundary of energy into a new state. It does so by moving the boundary. Rain […]
When water freezes, it has something to say. Sometimes it bends light. Sometimes it breaks it. Sometimes it sends it all back and remains hidden. And all the time, it interacts with […]
At first, we spot bone, skeletons and ribs. We look. Fish, I’d say. Then we notice it is ice and turn away. That first look, though, the eye’s own look, is the […]