It takes a particle of light 100,000 years to rise from the core of the sun to its surface, eight minutes to make it to Earth, and no time at all to complete […]
Wasps: Workers in the Furnace of the Sun
Birth and Life in the Grasslands
In the grasslands of the intermountain west, a seed doesn’t need to be planted in the soil. It falls into a crack in the living skin of the earth, which grows over […]
What Colour is the Okanagan?
This is the historical colour. This is the colour today. This is the result of overgrazing.
Environmental Crime in the Grasslands
It is time to set the one ton beasts out to munch. Here is a muncher in her lunch. And here are the kids playing on the rocks. Now, […]
Beautiful Grassland Hunters
Sometimes grass can be your wings.
Environmental Consciousness is Not Optional
Goethe, the poet, pointed out that all plants express one single energy, that opens through the life cycle of each plant as well as through the diversity of all plants. In his […]
The Beautiful One Digs a Hole
Here she is. 100 degrees Fahrenheit, that’s what she likes. That’s hole digging weather. First you drag a few boulders out of the way (note the upper legs doing just […]
The Heat Brings Out the Beautiful Ones
We Need More Sweet Loving!
And on a bed of alfalfa blossoms, yes. Blessed be.
Growing Food Without Water in the Hot Okanagan
Well, it’s dry, eh. And hot. Whew. This is 9:30 A.M. The afternoon was 38. (That’s 100 for you folks down south.) Forests are burning up. Smoke everywhere. All the upland water […]
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