Isn’t it very fine. There are the saskatoons of winter, with bark in a palette of rose and plum. Then there are the saskatoons of springtime. Look at their palette now! (This […]
The Palette of Saskatoons Through the Year
If This is Not Autumn What Is It?
Spring. Autumn isn’t a season. It’s a mood within a cultural tradition, that views life as a flow out of the earth during certain degrees of tilt of its northern shoulder towards […]
In Praise of Great Basin Giant Rye Grass
It would be beautiful if we taught the children of the Okanagan and the Okanogan that in our country grass doesn’t compost and make food for worms. Actually, this is a story […]
Four Seasons at Once in the Valley
While the Okanogan and the Okanagan celebrate spring … … for some, really, the petals are withering away and it is early summer. For others it is fall. For yet others, it’s […]
Space: the Human Habitat
Snow looks white and cold. It looks like a cold carpet over the earth. That’s the way a mammal thinks. A mammal has built itself around its own stove. To the creatures […]
The Black Cherries of Winter
It is the time of year when colour leaves the valley. The red choke cherries of summer are black. The skies are grey. The sun we knew in summer is gone. This […]
The Ripest of Roses
Nootka roses are pink when they bloom and red when they ripen.The leaves ripen into orange and yellow. The canes ripen to purple. Even the yellow which we, as humans, see at this time of […]
Living on a Sphere
If the earth were flat, she would be half as much fun. The grassy slope would always have the same orientation to the sun, for one thing. With a tilted earth, sometimes […]
For Apricots, Spring Starts Early and Lasts All Year
Life on the temperate earth goes around in circles, the same way as the earth goes around the sun. In this dance, spring is the kind of thing that requires Autumn leaves. […]
Poppy Seed Buzz
It is a joy to live on seasonal earth. Icelandic Poppy in My Flower Meadow The year is winding down, just when I was enjoying having it around. Ahhhhhh, but there’s a […]
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