Slowly, the cold is leaving Okanagan Lake. It has much to say on the way.
The Many Faces of Ice on Okanagan Lake
The Beautiful Temporary Estuaries of Winter
Ice freezes in flat sheets down on the old fjord lake. A few days later, it is broken up by the wind, in angular chunks, as the repeated rising and falling, linear […]
Big Ears for Big Sagebrush
The Big Sage blossoms with its scrubby flower stalks in the fall. There’s not great colour in them, but they do stick way up high. I’ve wondered about that often, with thoughts […]
Singing the Sun So Beautifully
Here’s a paper birch singing the sun today. Here Here are the notes for her sun song put into a ladder of spirit. This is the voice of the universe. Here are […]
Chickadee Photograph
So, the chickadees come and eat the weed seeds. This is part of the ecology of the new grasslands. It’s like moving to Mars, except Mars comes to you. Still, tasty, and […]
Thought and Memory on Watch Over the Grasslands
The grasslands are ruined and replaced with a colony of weeds from the russian steppes, with toxins and diesel fuel in their veins. It is often true, and a source of our […]
All the Ladies on the Hill Go Out for Lunch
The Bella Vista Mule Deer Does
Sure, Call it Water
But please first register that it’s alive (and often with birds). This is the comet formerly known as Okanagan Lake. ~ Note: these are colour images shot into the intersection of the sun […]
Un-Naming Okanagan Lake
If I look west down the arm of the fjord lake (Okanagan) from the beach down below my house, I see this kind of thing on some evenings … … and this […]
Yellow Clover Walking Across the Face of the Sun
Every yellow clover waits for five minutes as a star of birds. When the birds leave, it leaves with them now.
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