This post is for anyone who loves to look at water or who enjoys being made out of the stuff, for Sigrun in Norway, who gets to live right beside it in […]
Water and Air
In water, things achieve a true essence… That’s because on the earth, the sun meets water. It creates trees, and those other trees, that are like looking at myself in a language […]
Put That Android Phone Down Right Now!
This is cool. Here’s a conscious moment at the mouth of Lower BX Creek… Willows Being Willows. Water Being Water. And here’s what the subconscious mind sees… The Sky is Water Do […]
Lake Shells (Not Sea Shells)
In salt water, there’s salt and beautiful purple mussels. That’s a fine and wonderful thing. In fresh water, though, such as Okanagan Lake here in the foggy mountains of winter, there are […]
The Waxwings are Here!
As the snow sifted down yesterday afternoon, the waxwings appeared, just in time. They settled in the poplars down the road, looking like winter blossoms. These most wonderful birds devour all the […]
15 Pheasants Sitting in a Tree
Forget partridges in pear trees. Take a look at this! Ring-Necked Pheasants in a Choke Cherry Tree (or two) Before yesterday morning, I never saw a single pheasant in a single tree, […]
God and Evolution in the Age of Information
I’ve been showing you patterns in the leaves, and patterns of birds. Here they are together. One version of the theory of evolution holds that it’s all survival of the fittest, that […]
New Snow: When Zero Gets Real
I’ve been talking about zeroes lately, and suggested that a mathematics without zero would be a mathematics of unity. It wouldn’t lead to contemporary technical society or economics, or even the computer […]
Snow Images: Mathematics Without Zero
So, the birds come to the local sumac bush, chitter, chitter, cheep cheep, chirp… … and do what birds do best (other than the chirping)… The Mathematics of Randomness, by Birds I […]
Homage to a Stink Bug
The cranberry carageenas have lost their glowing orange leaves. Their berries are on the ground now, picked over by chickadees. It is a beautiful world of colour down there, where the summer […]
Okanagan Okanogan 