You can hide behind stuff. Sure, you might get spotted, but I bet that most times you don’t. And, in the end, the sagebrush masks one’s intentions. In a landscape that’s a […]
Lessons On Blending In at a Stag Party in Coyote Country
The Flicker in the … Cold Mine?
The neighbourhood flicker is a handsome bird. And always watchful. We love our flicker! Especially in the orange light that breaks through the car exhaust that is the latest idea for this old […]
The Okanagan’s Dirty Secret
Is it the Dirty Laundry Winery? No. That’s actually a little bit of colonial Canadian culture using the Okanagan to market Canada to itself by romanticizing prostitution. That’s easy. No, no, I mean […]
Sweet Apricot Kernels
Move over California, with your water-hungry almonds. 4.5 litres of water to grow one almond? Ridiculous! We have apricots with sweet kernels here in the north, that can grow in the shrub […]
Getting Down to Some Serious Fun in the Kitchen
There are close to 20,000 acres of wine grapes planted in the ruins of the Okanagan Valley, immensely attractive to tourists and restauranteurs alike. The wine? Well, some is fine and most […]
Every Mound of Grass is a Greenhouse
I live in an exotic landscape on a planet whirling through solar space, in which every greenhouse has a heating system pointed straight at the sun, to melt water and get things […]
More Fun Than a Jigsaw Puzzle
It’s the time of year for laying out a jigsaw on the kitchen table, but if the rest of the family is setting the table for dinner there, what to do? Aha! […]
Green is the Wrong Colour for a UFO
And now for the backstage view of the Okanagan, that artwork installed in the channel between the basalt seas of the Northeast Pacific Shore. Colonialism 101 The thing about an alien invasion […]
The Christmas Angel Takes Flight
Well, California quail, at any rate! And once again with the Earth in winter plumage! Up up and away! We are blessed.
Greetings From the Christmas Vole!
A short tail told many times is still a long story full of adventure and wonder! No translation needed!
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