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 […]
Interspecies Beauty
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.)
How the Mind and the Earth are One
Thatch and sod grass rising.Bunchgrass rising. Water bunch grassing. Sky bunch grassing. Lichen following the gaps between the bonds of water (which are part of water.) Balsam root lichening (in […]
Land Claims in the Okanagan
To say that a land and its people are one, as the first people of my land, the Syilx, say, is to say that the following image is an image of the […]
Blackbirds Singing Under the Moon of Sap
A moon ago, snow became the light and light the snow. Female Staghorn Sumac, January 31, 2015 That’s the moon in the air behind. It fills it. It was a beautiful time. […]
Sun Dog in the Morning
The sun brought one of its dogs out this morning. It was a trickster dog. High over town. It barked through the trees. Then slipped away. An hour later it was swimming in […]
The First Sagebrush Buttercup of the Season
There’s a place I know, and the sun was bright, so I thought, hey, why not go have a look? On February 22, no less! That’s pretty early. But most welcome!
Okanagan Okanogan 