Larch, black spruce, Douglas fir, western red cedar, alder, red dogwood, and even ponderosa and lodgepole pine. A fine North Okanagan forest. And even some Labrador tea in this swamp. This is […]
Mixed Okanagan Forest
Water and Gravity
Look at the pattern water makes when it gives off heat to form crystals. Now, look at the equally angular patterns its angular crystals (snow) make when they fall on a grassland […]
The Gift Culture of the Grasslands
Flax is beautiful. The seeds grow heavy and lower the seed to the ground. Mice eat the seed there. And then it lifts up again, through the snow! These aren’t seeds that […]
A Bold Young One
A young buck strolls along the canal trail in the fog. Then down to some human fruit trees and tasty shrubberies. There’s a gathering of does a kilometre away and the older […]
OK, Birders, What Do You Think?
Two claws cutting the snow in movement, three, maybe four, beats of the wings, wingspan perhaps 12″-14″… so what do you think? Here’s a closer look. Wetland in a mixed forest above […]
Grassland Bycatch
Bycatch is all that stuff in the sea that deserves its own life, is caught when fishers are trying to snag something or other, and is thrown back overboard dead. It’s a […]
Okanagan Architectural Blooper Part 2
Four days ago, I pointed out that not every architect is up to the job, given that this slope eroding into mud just weeks after being “completed.” I gave you a closeup, […]
Wild Watercress for the Okanagan
Here’s a ditch that the city scraped out last spring. It has grown back with watercress, as you can see, probably from contaminated equipment. But look at it! Growing away despite the […]
Okanagan Weather
This is a view west up Canoe Bay towards the Main Channel of the Okanagan Fjord. Yes, we call it a lake, bless us, but it’s really an inland fjord, cut deep […]
Solving the Okanagan Rental Housing Crisis in Groups of 8
Here’s a cottage on the hill in Vernon. Sometimes there are people in it, standing on the deck, looking out over God’s Kingdom. Not often, though. Note the pair of doors for […]
Okanagan Okanogan 