It puzzled me for a long time, what terroir means in the minds of winemakers in the Okanagan. After all, they say it means the expression of the land and its aspect […]
North Okanagan Terroir
There Goes the Neighbourhood
So, you start out with a pretty nice place, with some folks coming by in the summer for some fishing. Big Bar Lake And then the riff riff moves in. Three years, […]
Okanagan Landscaping the Hard Way
All last year, I watched this house go up. No expense was spared. Now, a year after breaking ground, the shrubberies are going in. Notice their compost mandalas! Nice, eh! The gravel […]
Suburban Body Painting
Every house is a representation of a human body… … including social representations of that body … … and its cognitive sense of itself, inviolate in otherwise empty and invisible space… So, […]
Mr. Nobel, You Have a Lot to Answer For
Human spring. Bella Vista Spring. Human spring. Bumblebee Spring. Human Spring. Coyote’s Front Yard Spring. Human Spring. Okanagan Lake Spring. Dynamite Spring. Deer Trail Spring. Grassland spring. Only one is called progress, […]
Weedkillers as Art
Exhibit 1: the Wealthy Man’s SculptureNo one knows what those metal bits on the top are. Intriguingly, poisoned plants around its base are considered a good way to sell building lots worth up […]
History’s Dead End
Some things are as plain as day. Thirty years on, an industry is already nostalgia. Decorating power switching boxes. I like the “Land of New Horizons” thing, on that 1970s magazine cover. […]
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