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 […]
You Say Tomato, I Say Apple
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, […]
The Art That Insects Make
In the summer, light strikes the leaves of the dogwoods unevenly, as they flit about in their environment of light and shadow filtering through other leaves that move and shift with sun […]
Betraying the Earth
Good intentions are not enough. Contemporary systems of governmental organization and the structures that support them ensure that principles of conservation can become something else entirely. The Government of Canada is currently […]
What Trees are For
Trees exist to bring light into darkness, to immerse it in liquid and draw it down into the darkness of the earth. Following the light through all the faces of a tree is […]
I Love Sumac
That’s just the way it is. What’s not to love with music like this? Autumn: Sumac Time When you see that colour bleeding up the scree slopes until it brushes the snow, […]
Give Thanks for the Porcupine
Well met on the coyote trail. (It’s a big pic, just click it.) The world we share… Fruit for us, bark for her.
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