Today, the winter’s birds decided to celebrate the sun in the same trees and the same hill at the same time. There were thousands. The waxwings kept to themselves, the hawk wanted […]
Birds of Many Species Flocking Together
The Flicker in the … Cold Mine?
The neighbourhood flicker is a handsome bird. And always watchful. We love our flicker! Especially in the orange light that breaks through the car exhaust that is the latest idea for this old […]
The Future of Remembrance
Autumn is a time of year when mixed maturity and loss exist together in the poignancy that for much of Western history has been the heart of art. Autumn Study: Red Cabbage, […]
I am a Weed and Proud of It
Would you call this a weed? Russian Thistle aka Tumbleweed How about this? Full Bloom! I found four colour variants today: Gold, Yellow, Pink, and Red. What is a weed? The everyday […]
All Conversations are Not Between People
Why are these people kayaking in Kalamalka Lake? To talk to the lake. Why am I showing you this? To talk with the sky, along with you. Why did I take this […]
10 More New Water Collection Technologies for the Okanagan (And an Extra One for Fun)
Currently water is collected in the Okanagan by three methods. The first is to turn high country lakes and streams into reservoirs, which are then piped down into the valleys, to provide […]
Muskrats That Live in the Trees
This is an awfully wonderful planet — sometimes delightfully so. Here is a typical reed dweller… Red Winged Blackbird Giving Me the Eye The weak colour of his wing patch indicates that […]
Time Travellers, Dancers, and Evolution
Instead of a science that looked at precise instants in time, constructed out of exact measurements of the kind that gave civilization (so to speak) photography, the poet Goethe proposed a science […]
The Ethics of Nature Photography
Humanly created machines are great at capturing light and holding it tight for another day. It’s not so special, though. Everybody in the neighbourhood is into it. The juniper people, for instance […]
Gripple Apples
Gripple. Nice word. It has an active form, too: grippling. These old words don’t hang out in a dictionary, though, and Google is hopeless with them, but you can find them in […]
