What is going on in the real estate news today? Well, everyone has their eyes and ears on it. The thing is, the lord and lady of the mountain are checking out […]
The Landowners Go Town Home Shopping in the North Okanagan Valley
A Bit Early for Spring Salad
A bit early for a soak in the sun, too. Worth a look, maybe.
Reconciliation in the Okanagan Valley
It’s dry down here. There isn’t even any snow. Weird. The deer aren’t in the best of shape. Just one antler, buddy? Ouch. Nor the vineyards. Planted to increase the value of […]
We Got This Wrong
This is not right: Similkameen River, January 14, 2026. photo by Harold Rhenisch This time of year, it should be a low river with clear water and green ice along the shore, […]
A Crowded World
Here are three women walking down a corridor between two deer fences. Plus a coyote, as I showed you a few weeks back. Today, a bigger view. The upper fence ostensibly protects […]
Roads to Nowhere
Here’s a pretty typical Cascadian road. It goes across the high prairie north of the Columbia River, but not to the prairie. It goes through it. On its way to somewhere else. […]
GARRY GOTTFRIEDSON & HAROLD RHENISCH Reading and Open Mic
Garry is coming to town! From 2:00 to 4:00 pm. on Saturday, January 25, at the Vernon Library, we will celebrate poetry together, and open the floor to an open Mic. Garry […]
A Hungry Day
A bad day for flying, too. Ponderosa Pines on Turtle Ridge So, maybe you can still catch a bite, right? In the fall rye? You know, the vegetable field, past and future […]
Need Water? Make Some. Need Land? Make Some of That, Too.
Just, like, you know, find a cliff and get rooted. This is an old railway cut, but a road cut will do fine. For this approach, it’s good to be below a […]
Happy New Year!
It is the year to become sagebrush! Let us have an end to fences this time around! Blessings, all you Cascadians out there!
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