Ten degrees below freezing is, pshaw, nothing to a dock. It uses its red leaves to make heat from the sun that the rest of us don’t get to feel. Curly dock, […]
Ten Degree Below Zero: Gardening Weather!
The Illusion of Retirement: the View from the Okanagan
When industry is “housing development”… …it means that people live in industrial sites. They put up with it because houses will increase in value when the neighbours start building. The bigger the […]
The Mingling Rivers of Life
Spring doesn’t come all at once. As this ravine in Vernon shows… “Spring” is the wrong concept entirely. Experience has to be selectively read in order for the concept to fit at all. […]
Artificial Glaciers for the Okanagan
Water pours down out of the mountains and into the lake and it floods. This is trouble. Here’s one thing we can do: Simple, really. We can store snow. 150 metres above […]
No, It’s Not Winter
It’s only winter in town. The Earth has no time for that kind of thing!
The Forgiving Earth
The kids learn the ideals of society. Or, better put, the parents try to teach them. But the Earth has its way, and even the lawnmowers succumb to her greater power. Eventually. […]
Noxious Weeds? Don’t be Silly.
The scotch thistle is listed as a noxious weed in the Okanagan. The image below shows it after the first year of is growth. Now it’s ready to grow a tall stalk. […]
The Price for Speaking of the Land in English
Lines, flows, and waves crossing points of measurement or data are primary in contemporary understandings of language. The thought that goes from one point to another and makes a point, even wave […]
Garlic Time
Garlic says hello. First Inchelium Red. The Columbia River’s own. She says hello. So does my Russian Red. And so does my China White and, in the foreground, my young Bella Vista […]
March 2 and the Apples are Ripe
Cherries, too. It is a lesson in ending anthropological thinking. What would our valleys look like if we grew fruit for the birds, and then, rather than harvesting it for fruit or […]
