Well, our future is here now. That’s the Okanagan Lake shore at Ellison Park. You can see the ground up sand brought in to make a comfy sunbathing beach of it, and, […]
The New Year Washes Ashore
Back to the Fire
The west shore of Okanagan Lake burnt last summer, amidst the burns of years before. It was a terrible time last summer, but now that the year is in its last hours, […]
Okanagan Lake Climbs into the Sky
Really. Look at it hanging there at the level of the mountaintops, and no more. Boiling off, really!
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
The surface of water is pretty much flat. Beneath that, it rises and falls and flows according to temperature, pressure, inflow and outflow and other watery things like that. Above its surface […]
Surf’s Up in Vernon!
Really. Big breakers today. Sailboat getting into trouble in Canim Bay. Not that the surfers aren’t glad. Whoo ha! Here’s one showing us her technique! See that? It’s not that ducks swim. […]
It’s Not Really Your Choice to Make
We can view this peninsula as the head of a turtle. Or we can view it as a lump of rock that reminds us, childishly, of a turtle, or just as a […]
Move Over Mount Fuji
Terrace Mountain has a new lagoon on the lake, to reflect in. If this were a mature culture, there would be pilgrimages.
A Crop Unpicked, A Chance Missed, An Opportunity Awaiting
At first, at Antlers’ Beach this afternoon, that old salmon, deer and berry camp midway up the western shore of Okanagan Lake, I thought, where are the birds? The birds that could […]
Whose Land is This, Then?
Here’s the shore of Okanagan Lake in Vernon. Everything between the creek in the middle of the image and the green lawn in the foreground is part of Priest Valley Indian Reserve […]
Moonrise at Sunrise Over Okanagan Lake
Okanagan Mountain at 6 a.m. Perhaps you can see the western wall of the valley, to the right, tip nearly vertically as it moves east and collides with the westward-moving mountain coming […]
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