Here’s a wasp on some desert parsley two days ago. Check out the scaly covers of her wings. Here’s a willow on the same day. Note the scaly covers of her […]
When is a Wasp a Flower?
This is Not Our Planet
Imagine if this pussy willow… … was your world … …and not just yours … … but a world of many creatures … … namely a wasp… … and a different wasp […]
May Balsam Roots in March!
Incredible. She’s beautiful, but looking all alone! That’s because she is. But in two days… Many others will join her. Man, things are early this year.
The Blue Herons Return to the Rookery
Aren’t they grand!And in constant movement! What a beautiful mystery! And true love. An encouraging audience helps.It’s not easy with those big wings. But you can do it. […]
When Volcanoes Crumble Flowers Come
When the earth is spoken of in its own terms it becomes poetry and is a language for spirit, like this… When rock catches sun and snow, lupins sprout and sagebrush buttercups and […]
Interspecies Beauty
When cattail seeds drift in the wind and catch on the red osier dogwoods like this… … it is surely beautiful. It’s like warm frost! It takes a year […]
Garlic Time!
Get your pots out! Gallagher Lake, Okanagan Valley, March 8, 2015
Why We Need Treaties
I live in a place that illegally occupied land, and signed no treaties for it. Here we are at an old village site on the Commonage Claim above Kalamalka Lake. A parking lot! […]
Climbing The Waterfall
On Friday, I talked about The Moods of Colour. In short, I argued that the different plants, lichens and rock in the image below were all different moods of light, different levels of […]
Bald Eagles Flirting in the Okanagan
There’s nothing like a hunt for mice and housecats …. … for romance. Form helps. And doing it together. (Even though one has to work to keep up.)
Okanagan Okanogan 