It’s great to have readers! I set out to follow my river home and to sing the journey as a map. The Nkwentkwitkw, below Rattlesnake Ridge, photo by Harold Rhenisch I had […]
Gravity and Anti-Gravity Hard at It
Here’s some gravity at work. Some snow melt strikes a rock face and tears soil down with it. This is gravity working in open, unconstricted space. Note as well the salts on […]
The Life of Okanagan Lake: a Meditation on the Year Before Us
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 […]
After the Fire, A Little Global Cooling
Far from the fires of summer and fed by the torrential rains of November, the lichens are in their full glory right now. Worldwide, lichens take as much carbon out of the […]
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 […]
What is Life?
These maple leaves are still alive and capturing the sun — some of them. Others are dead. None are attached to a tree. None can reproduce. None can feed a root or […]
How Much Soil Do We Need, Who Gets to Decide, How, and Why?
Today a little tour through democracy in action. Note the two anti-insect bands. Given that a gram of soil continues 1 billion microorganisms, beating out seawater’s 1 million, how much topsoil does […]
The Bed of the Wind
The wind and the rain made a mysterious shape in the grass on the hill. We had quite a storm. It looks like the grass was pushed against itself, with wind-surge meeting […]
The Beautiful Creatures Who Put Up With Us
This poplar is inspiring. It’s hard to say which is more beautiful, her young bark or her old bark. To be young and old at the same time, that’s not a human […]
The Life of Water
Under certain conditions, water freezes in curves around the expanding pressure of air, in a shape reminiscent of liquid water giving way to form. At other times, it freezes in the shape […]
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