A deer has been eating my plums. I didn’t think to get out there with a tape measure to get an exact measurement. I was too busy shooing her away. But it […]
How Wide is a Mule Deer’s Mouth?
The Watcher and the Watched
What you see sees you. This makes no sense if seeing is identified as an personal act, but if sight is present, like light, then both the seer and the seen are […]
Sunrise from the Bottom Up
Just because humans are vertical pillars with the seeing bits at the top doesn’t mean the world works from the top down, too. Or from the bottom up, for that matter.
What to Do When You Lose Your Hat in the Wind
Seriously, out in the shrub steppe it does get windy, and losing a hat is a real thing. The sun can then burn you into a lump of tar. I had a […]
The Universe Underfoot
The mysteries of the universe are not mysterious. They tell their stories far and wide. Look at the infertile serviceberry fruits dropped for the mice on the deer and coyote trail up […]
Hiding in Plain Sight: a Story with a Rosy Future
So, let’s say you want to eat wild rose petals, but don’t want to get eaten in turn and aren’t, say, as big as a mule deer and so, as far as […]
Not Fractals but Maples: the New Math
Mathematics is great. I love it. But I think it has too much power. For instance, the maple below is not solely a function of mathematics. To say it was would be […]
No, It’s Not Winter
It’s only winter in town. The Earth has no time for that kind of thing!
Farming the Atmosphere
Very slowly, and with great drama and beauty, the atmosphere breaks bedrock to bits. Why are we not farming the air? It is doing this everywhere, with a bit of help from […]
Healing Climate Change in the Grasslands of the Okanagan
In the last couple of posts, I talked about the industrial, environmental and social costs of growing fruit in the Okanagan Valley. You can have a peek in this post: The True Costs […]
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