I now have two homes on this earth. Just look at them both in this spring full of light. First, my home in the middle of the North Atlantic … Spring […]
It is So Good to be Home
Home
You can travel halfway around the world to find yourself at home, and just as you leave you find old friends, who have travelled halfway around the world to be home. […]
A British Columbian Gardener in Iceland? Must Be!
Oh-oh, looks like Canadian folk culture garden design has hit Iceland. That can only mean trouble, with a capital Rouble. Take a look here on Noatun in Reykjavik… See That? An […]
Respect and Honour
Glacial water, treeless mountains, hardy birches on the shore … 10,000 years ago the Okanagan looked like this. Hallormstaður, Iceland Notice the lack of waterfront houses. That was done out of respect. […]
What a Living Earth Does
It breathes. Hengifoss Waterfall Shaking off Its Ice … … and taking a deep breath. The old words are best. In fact, today the Highlands were being scoured clean of old snow. […]
The Solar Horses of Iceland
You see, it goes like this. There are human people and there are other people, and some of those are horses, except it’s not clear which ones, the human people or the […]
Iceland and Canada: the Rust Belt
Some say Canada’s Chilcotin, some say Iceland’s Sudurdalur, but the effect of farming in a non-manufacturing country is the same: your profits are spent on rust, and you never get ahead, because […]
Four Dimensional Photography
That’s right: 4-D. The patterns in this stream are not ripples of light tossed around by waves on the water’s surface. The surface of this tiny stream at Kjarvalhvammur, Iceland is covered […]
The Invention of Nature
Nature didn’t always exist. Unlike most manufactured products, though, it wasn’t stamped out of a plastic mould in a factory in China, or even poured into a mould in an old factory […]
Urban Planning Back to Basics
You know how when you’re making the run from the town you live in to the town you want to get to and there’s this great big empty space in between, and […]
Okanagan Okanogan 