The most beautiful fliers prosper in the dying land. As we approach zero, we are born from it again.
Buzzards in the Smoke of Sexqéltkemc Territory
The Redfish Come Home
Things are pretty great on Redfish Creek above the over-deepened trough of Kootenay Lake these days. The kokanee have come home. The work of mixing the sun with the earth and the […]
Pick Your Camoflauge!
Blend in. Or look like you blew in on the wind. And hang on. That’s the way.
The Dragon of Okanagan Lake
After nearly two months without a sky, only smoke, the dragon showed itself four nights ago. Tonight, it is once again obscured in smoke. I sure miss the sky! I never realized […]
How The Sun Makes Rich Soil
It’s simply beautiful how it is done. First, water sorts out the finest grains of silt, and deposits them on the surface of low points in the earth, filling them in. Then […]
Alfalfa Walking
When you rely on animals brushing up against your seeds, or pecking at them, to knock them to the soil, it’s best to fall over with the weight of your flowers, so […]
A Proposal for Nature Tourism for the Okanagan
This wetland beauty is what a real tourism is made of. I witnessed busloads of Asian tourists scattered across pastures in Iceland, to take pictures of exquisite light. The timing, the location, […]
Invisible Deer
Well, she thinks so!
Of Butterflies and Ethics
If I had done the ethical thing and turned the land surrounding my house into a desert of rocks to conserve water, this butterfly would not have come today to feed. All […]
What Colour is a Damselfly Anyway?
Note how the damselfly in the water is tall and full of energy, while the one on the butt of the birch log is weary and weighed down by the weight of […]
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