Yes, that’s an upside-down Moose Crossing sign and a Telus Smart Security Sign as an oar. Or is that a sail? No, the flag is the sail! Look, when you inherit a […]
Okanagan Landscaping Style Tips for New Immigrants
Mid-Winter Avalanche in Vernon
Snow just doesn’t want to stay put, the sneaky stuff. Even if it is sitting absolutely flat, it wants to get all tipsy. That’s the way of things. Note the bird […]
Magpie’s Thoughts on Land Claims
Middle Class Country: an American pop culture project. Dude Ranch Country: an older American pop culture project. Spiritual Country: a Chinese-European folk cultural project. Artistic Country: an American cultural export installation. […]
Even If We Don’t Know This Story We Know This Story
We are being written. And we are being read. You can do it in any order. The order is what we bring to this environmental bonding. This: It can be followed […]
Home is Not a Place
Summer is over. The seductive music of elsewhere is looking like a confused, lost art form on the streets of Penticton. While on the streets of Okanagan Falls, the retirement homes of […]
The Kings and Queens and Queens and Queens and Queens of Vernon Go On Parade
Welcome to the Vernon Winter Carnival. It all started around these parts with a stagecoach some 150 years back. We have evolved since then, I tell ya. Wonderland, we call it […]
The Canadian Invasion
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Whatever Happened to the VW Hippy Van?
Borgarnes, Iceland. If you are over 50, you will find your childhood there. If younger, your pink parents.
Gardening is Just Too Hard
Even if you spend many thousands of dollars to cover most of your whole yard in black plastic tarp and to cover it in river gravel, there is no guarantee of success at […]
What are Those Americans Up to Now?
I don’t know. Look for yourself. Downtown Kelowna, 2:40 pm. August 20, 2015 I think the Okanagan’s brothers and sisters (nominally Canadian) in Okanogan County (nominally American) need our support in working […]
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