Apples for sale by the bag. Looks nice, huh! Look more closely. Here are some Ambrosias. See all that marking? These apples are worth zero. In a modern world of cosmetic fruit, […]
Apple Crisis in Vernon
Halloween Lovers
Here they are, the darlings. Male and Female Black Widows Hanging out in my garage. She’s sure getting big. Twice the size, easily, from when she moved in five months ago. She […]
Planet of Fire
This is no ordinary planet we live on. I think it’s best to walk outside and take a look … There are many flames, new and old, in this photograph of Middleton […]
Deconstruction Deconstructed
Human society is what it is: a little crazy, a little aggressive, a little beautiful, a little fearful, a little boastful, a little shy, a little ugly, a little transcendent, and very […]
The Best Art Gallery
The water above, the sun caught in the art of the vines, the desert of the earth…. … this is ancient stuff. We can dress it up with triple-blind, peer-reviewed studies of water, air […]
You Say Tomato, I Say Apple
I’m still slowly picking and savouring this first crop of Benvoulin apples in 20 years. Here is one of them hanging out with the gals from the tomato patch, just for […]
Teleportation, Anti-Gravity and Art
Defying gravity? It’s a trick of light. If the sun had moved its substance to earth physically, there would be no water and no life. Reforming itself in a new form, that’s the […]
Wine Secrets
Wine making is such a romantic business.Noble Ridge Vineyard, Okanagan Falls It’s a way of selling peasant culture as elite culture.It’s done within a metaphor of capitalization. Only industrialists need apply. It […]
The Tragedy of My Generation… And Its Hope
This is what our parents’ farms largely look like today, after we were taken away by promises of distant glories.This too is an image of war. Our parents came through the Second World […]
Porcupine the Gardener
Some people just can’t help gardening. Take the local porcupines, for instance. They love to chaw down on the pile of cull apples a farmer dumps at the top part of his property, […]
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