Let me demonstrate why playing with pattern is a vital strategy. Here is what looks like a hill. Note it is made out of rocks. They have done a good job of […]
The Weave of the Earth (Poetry in the Modern World Part 2)
The New Year Begins in Its Own Sweet Time
About a week ago, really. It’s quite settled in now and has its eye on us. And at the very last, the old year shows us her hidden beauty. And her new […]
A Simple Thing We Can All Do to Start Repairing the Earth in 2019
Let’s say you want a device that will quickly catch snow, turn it to water and catch it, without power. Let’s say you don’t have a big roof you can use. Something […]
Getting Intimate With Global Cooling Processes
A gopher mound cools the earth by making a trail of bare-soil seed-beds that hold the snow and reflect light and heat. The plants that sprouted there in September need that cover […]
Merry Christmas!
When one comes to the end of what one can say, consciousness continues a little further. The frame that allows this to happen becomes invisible and merges into the image. This effect […]
Spring for the Japanese Quince and Her Sisters
The double-flowered Japanese quince in front of my house is still dropping her leaves. She has also been bearing her scarcely open blossoms for weeks now. For her, winter is over. And […]
Mystery Plant in the Okanagan Grasslands: Do You Know What It Is?
Beautiful stuff. Whatever it is, a little snow won’t hurt it. The six inches on top of it a few days back, or the Minus 9, did it no harm. Seems to […]
Slow Glaciers, Cows, Deer, Lichen and Poetry Making a New Hydrology Together
A mysterious rock near the top of the hill. Here’s the hill in the smoke last fall. Looks dry, huh. We’re going up to the top of the bare patch at the […]
Being and Space
Philosophers of “the problem” of human existence… Seemingly, This is a Problem …assure us that thought happens when we engage with language, and within society, because that’s the deal with language: it’s […]
Okanagan Mountain in the Sky
Here is where the wind changes on Okanagan Lake. These are late afternoon pictures. In the morning, the water beyond this point was silver. Not like water-that-had-a-silver-colour but silver. The light was […]
