The search for life on Mars concentrates on geology and chemistry, not because life is entirely a business of geology or chemistry, but because a) those things can be measured and b) […]
What to Look for On Mars
Moss Going Weird in an Early Thaw
Ah, botanists, I have a mystery here. Perhaps you can help. What on earth is this moss in the image below? I was walking up on the Bella Vista Hills above Okanagan […]
There Is No “Post-” in Post-Colonialism
I walked up the hill across the valley today, to get into the fog. No, this isn’t today. This is the spring of 2012. But that’s part of the hill in the […]
Lost Knowledge: Apples and Culture
I weep. At the beginning of the 1980s, I grafted the first Fuji apples in this country, as part of an attempt to free us from the trade rules of the Canadian […]
A New School in the Okanagan Spreads Its Wings
Living Wild in the Stone Age Friday, January 10, 2014, Vernon Public Library, 4:30 p.m. (I’ll let you know how it goes.) “Spend a month in the wilderness, with only buckskin clothing, handmade […]
Where is the Government?
The government is the people’s voice. Sometimes it appears that the government is hiding. Sometimes, one is surprised just where it’s got to. Here is the art that Vernon’s Gallery Vertigo put […]
The Glory of Winter Sun
The birds left a few hawthorns. Just so does the year begin on the deer trail high up on the hill. Hawthorns are a part of the grass. Fir trees, too, all […]
Walking in the Sun
In the post-marxist cultural world of contemporary art (don’t fool yourself, it exists outside of North Korea), the sun on the saskatoon bush below is not considered art, nor is the moment […]
The Tree Climbing Beavers of Lower BX Creek!
Some people are messy when they eat. They leave stuff all over the place. This is a chunk of maple that they floated down through a culvert and 200 metres downstream into […]
Happy New Year!
The folks down the road have been making magic to see the New Year in with true artfulness! Obviously, with a send-off like that, it’s going to be a great year. Blessings to […]
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