A rock slide makes a very fine garden, thank you very much. And a great place to park the kids for the winter. Not every bird is going to spot that egg […]
Oh, Black Widow!
The Turtle of Turtle Ridge
At some point, many years ago, someone built a turtle on Turtle Ridge, between Head of the Lake (yes, a turtle head) and Turtle Mountain, and left it for us to find […]
The Tides Wash Over Turtle Mountain
When plants left the sea for the air… … they didn’t. We live in an intertidal zone. Ah, here comes the first breaker of the tide now… Here’s the surf rolling East […]
The Magical Language of Opals
The ground is rich with opal here. Mostly, it is in thin sheets repairing the splintered rock from the violent collision that made this land. You can read it, though. On the […]
The Centre of the Earth
The cinder cone is gone, but the bones of the land remain. This is my city, Vernon, viewed from its northeast rim. In the center left of the image is the old […]
The Snake and Turtle Trail
There is an ancient trail that comes in from spaxmən (Douglas Lake), crosses kɬúsx̌nítkw (Okanagan Lake) below, on the lower left … … and enters a tongue of land called “The Commonage”. The trail […]
The Real Work
In 2017, the world will not revolve around a streetlight. Let the crossing of the trails begin. Let the bodies be returned to the earth. Let the earth be brought back to […]
We’ve Been Preparing the New Year for You for Quite Some Time
Are you ready to feast at last?
Christmas Rejoicing on Turtle Mountain
Let us praise even the cold. The terrible, iron cold. Let us give way and accept the story no more … … that the cold holds the land in its grip. […]
Red is the Colour of the Okanagan
Rock gardening is the purest form of gardening in the Okanagan. It’s native to this place, and very Zen. That makes sense for rock that started off in Japan and wandered here […]
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