Imagine if you could regulate heat loss and roof melting simply by switching from a flat roof to a roof covered in river rock, or a lightweight approximation of it. The insulating […]
Post-Racial Geography, an Introduction
This is not indigenous land. This is one of the main spiritual centres of my country, the Similkameen Valley. To call it indigenous, or native, land, is to adopt the words that […]
The Mysterious Similkameen
Here where the glaciers ground each other to a halt and ate down into the earth instead, the Apex volcanic complex meets the North Cascades. After so many millions of years, they’re […]
Of Apricots and Organic Time
She’s a lovely one, Apricot. She lures me. I have a body that is eager to be lured. The blossoms are so pretty and smell so sweet. Finding fruit, and caring for it, is […]
Wooden People in the Similkameen
After forty-five years, a change of flavour! It was the only sunny day forecast for a week, so today was the day. Up at dawn, and a two hour drive, to be […]
Starlings Bring the Night
Someone has to. Daly Mountain, Similkameen Valley
Puddinhead Mountain Wakes
In the valley that raised me and gave me my children, the old volcanic country of the Similkameen, filled with the gravel glaciers gouged out of the Okanagan to the east, the […]
The Black Moons of Mid-Winter
Fools call these moons asian pears and eat them before they are ripe. She was once the golden sun of September. Now she is ripe and oozing mysterious sugar. This is fruit for the […]
Reviewing David Pitt-Brooke’s Walk Through the Grasslands
I spent the early winter reading a beautiful and, unfortunately, incomplete book: Crossing Home Ground, by David Pitt-Brooke. It records an epic walk through the grasslands of Southern British Columbia: my own […]
Spirit Mountains and Ice Rivers of the Similkameen
The Similkameen River makes a big bend to the east at the foot of Chopaka and Hurley Peak (the left and right peaks below) A few ridges and fifty miles to the […]
Okanagan Okanogan 