The sun starts out as perfect as can be, burning the hydrogen of a star that shone before it and exploded long ago. Out here, where other bits of that star accumulated […]
How Could Anyone Want More Sun Than This?
Learning from Birds
Some of the people who live here only come two days a year. Cedar Waxwings Settling in for the Night on Their Way North, Okanagan Landing Without them, it would not be […]
Solstice, and the Wisdom of the Trees
Solstice. The sun is going through a tiny hole into the darkness today and out again tomorrow. It’s not a flower, exactly. It’s just the sun. It has been a beautiful journey […]
Travelling Time
This is the season of travellers. A couple hundred showed up yesterday, as the last of the sun burst in under the clouds, with its deep orange rays come in horizontally from […]
Milkweed and Monarch Butterflies in the North
Here’s a good reason for actively maintaining species diversity. The photo bellow shows a community of milkweed interrupted by a run-off stream created by a subdivision road and a water and environmental […]
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