Because this is a country built around a mix of public and private property, and built especially upon long-distance communication from across the continent and the oceans, the dominance of transportation ensures […]
Is this the mariposa lily? Or is this? The light remains. It gives us gravity, or draws the mind forward so it sees the light within the body, if you will. Similarly, […]
Summer is over. The seductive music of elsewhere is looking like a confused, lost art form on the streets of Penticton. While on the streets of Okanagan Falls, the retirement homes of […]
I’ve been asked: what’s the point of all this? Good question. Here, this is the point. Big Sage and Crested Wheat Grass Lots of points In a culture that gives priority at […]
2000 times I have looked closely at the land and squawked to you what I have seen. It has been beautiful. But then the world has gone up in smoke. And […]
Today, sober reflection. Tomorrow, a celebration. Kind of a small difference, eh. When the 5,000-year-old rattlesnake den on the hill was blasted away to make room for the luxury view homes the […]
Smoke is filtering out the sun. The hot August days are as cool as a warm day in March. Orchards, already struggling with a world glut of fruit, as the empty land […]
The snow buckwheat started blooming today on the cliffs and rocky crags. The wasps are loving it. Lots of wasps all loving it at once. Beautiful wasps. Beautiful wasps with issues. […]
The first wave of colonization in the Okanagan Valley saw Canadian, British and Belgian entrepreneurs parachuting into the valley to create a series of fruiting gardens and their service towns, integrating European […]
What a world we live in. Once, there was a shamanic landscape. If you walked out into the grass, you were in a wind that blew off the stars. The old stories […]
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