Landscaping is hard work. The name says it all: land + scoop, the Old Norse word for fate, the shape one makes of a life by work, the scoop that drains a […]
Settler Culture Going for Broke
Dressing for the Weather in the Okanagan
A couple weeks ago, things were looking pretty poorly up the road, with unseasonable snow.. But now, things are looking up, with unseasonable heat. Always wear a hat. That’s the trick. Right. […]
The Six Lessons Of Water and House Building in the Grasslands
Houses in this grassland subdivision are coming in around $1,000,000 dollars these days. I expect this one on the edge of stream bed is little different. Water has some lessons in store […]
The Lessons of Water
If you try to walk up this gully, you will get less than a metre. Then you’ll be done. Simply put, it is not for humans. It is for water, and water […]
Choke Cherry Mystery
The choke cherries, those that remain from July’s crop, are softening, ripening and turning sweet with the cold. That is the work of temperature, bacteria and yeast. Look, more closely, though: Is […]
Peach Harvest Goes On into November
It’s not over until it’s over. Peaches are not the only ripening. All ripenings do not lead to harvest.
Sunflower Diplomacy, Human Bargaining
If you call… … they will come. Lunch Time But wait! Humans have a role to play here. These sunflowers originated with a charity giving them away in search of support. The […]
Cottonwoods Are the Salmon of the Air
Cottonwood trees lay down the nutrient conditions for salmon by creating sandbars, back eddies, and nutrient rich water. More vitally, their leaves are salmon. They grow along a spine and then at […]
Winter Bees
Summer bees might be creatures of sun and flowers and air and light… Here is Next Summer … but that’s because they are preparing to be bees of soil and Earth and […]
Who Can Take the Cold, or Is It Really Climate Change?
Here’s the Vineyard at the Rise, frozen with grapes on the vine. And here is the picking team. And the administration… I’m all for feeding the birds, but it would have been […]
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