Those are for the bees, More important, is the ovary within its frilly, protective leaf, and the stamens attached to it. As you can see, they’re very much alive. It’s not the […]
Every Apricot Begins Neither Male Nor Female
What Happens When Humans Live in All the Bottom Lands
Deer pace the hills like leopards in a cage. Eventually, they will bring the mountain down. This is above sx̌ʷəx̌ʷnitkʷ, the ancient salmon fishery on the Okanagan River. It’s not just the salmon […]
Beautiful Old Tree
Peaches are scrubby little bushes from the Gobi Desert, that live to be fifteen years old, more or less, before they succumb to their many fragilities. Here’s one I’ve been caring for […]
What Wasp Knows
It’s not just about the flowers. Buds hold their secrets, too. Love your local apricot today!
Where the Mountains Become Water
In my country, the rivers are born in the mountains. Here is born the Missouri, the Columbia, the Fraser and all their ancestors and all their daughters. This particular mother is the Cascades: a […]
Gardening in the Okanagan in 2017
Some things are sobering. Here’s a cold frame (a glassed-in seedbed, for early growing) from 1978, updated for the new Okanagan in the age of vineyardization. Before 1978, this was an orchard, […]
These Drops Will Not Fall
Here in the depressurized zone east of the Coast Mountains, they will soon be absorbed back into the air. They have only alighted for a moment on these cottonwoods, like birds.
It’s That Day (You Know the One)
You remember arrow leafed balsam root, of course. First Flower Day! Soon there will be millions.
Moving Season in the Okanagan
Road shoulders are for living. Watch where you park that Ford!
Saskatoon Follows the Sun
Commonly, we say that plants “spring” up or grow in the ‘spring,” but look at siya? here. All she is doing is following the sun, and being drawn out by it like […]
Okanagan Okanogan 