That one catkin on the right seems especially grid-locked.
Okanagan Traffic
May Balsam Roots in March!
Incredible. She’s beautiful, but looking all alone! That’s because she is. But in two days… Many others will join her. Man, things are early this year.
When Volcanoes Crumble Flowers Come
When the earth is spoken of in its own terms it becomes poetry and is a language for spirit, like this… When rock catches sun and snow, lupins sprout and sagebrush buttercups and […]
Like Sky Like Earth
The energy and pressure effects that create these clouds in the depressurized and repressurized zone west of the coastal arc volcanoes of the North Eastern Pacific create in their image grasslands that […]
In Praise of Saskatoon Blossoms
The hills are bright with saskatoons. Isn’t that fine! They have the scent of pear blossoms. If you haven’t smelled pear blossoms lately, well, they smell like fresh cream and wildflower […]
Badgers: Gardeners of the Sun
The balsam roots are tossing in the wind.This grassland is on a hill because it is created by hills. Wind and water never stop moving there, powered by the turning of the […]
A Bumblebee in the Vetch
Here’s how to make the world bloom next year and the year after that. First, extend the tongue, gently …Second, flap the flappers and stick up the ear thingies (we use only very […]
Wild Bees Going Wild
Wasps, bees, hornets, bumblebees, beetles, ants, butterflies … everyone is out in the wild cherries today. Nobody is in the orchards ten feet away. And not one single domesticated bee in sight. Look at […]
Walking Among the Children of the Sun
A new year of growth has started, not on the deep bottom lands, but high above, on rock. Here we on a rocky outcropping about 100 metres above Okanagan Lake. The Sun […]
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