Welcome to Vernon. We look after our roads here. Others might consider it a mysterious business, but sometimes we fix many holes at a time. Our work crews are trained and skilled, […]
Professional Road Repair: Public Service in the North Okanagan
The Six Lessons Of Water and House Building in the Grasslands
Houses in this grassland subdivision are coming in around $1,000,000 dollars these days. I expect this one on the edge of stream bed is little different. Water has some lessons in store […]
Who Can Take the Cold, or Is It Really Climate Change?
Here’s the Vineyard at the Rise, frozen with grapes on the vine. And here is the picking team. And the administration… I’m all for feeding the birds, but it would have been […]
Of Memory and Resilience
Tbese webs are woven, and then rebuilt again and again after being torn by prey. They are then built on the old pattern, and become thick. This is what memory looks like, […]
Fooling Around With Tomatoes and Marigolds
So, I went away for weeks. And the marigolds I planted to keep the tomatoes safe from bugs went a little wild. OK, very wild! Look at that tomato below, making a […]
All Dressed Up With Nowhere to Go: a Day Off the Reservation
Traditional dancing might not help. The slope that male deer have been using for their fall gatherings have been graded, sculpted and turned into a big wide flat parking lot for white […]
What to Do When You Lose Your Hat in the Wind
Seriously, out in the shrub steppe it does get windy, and losing a hat is a real thing. The sun can then burn you into a lump of tar. I had a […]
Cinnamon Bear in the Sagebrush
I thought we’d go and check out the wetland just behind the top of the hill today, and see if the wet spring had put water in it. It has been dry […]
Beautiful Wasp
She’s not very big, but she sure is beautiful! About 12 or 13 mm long, I’d say. The early bees took a beating in the winter, but later pollinators have fared better. […]
Canada: Country of Weeds
Seriously. Here’s an image of the Grey Canal trail in the Okanagan Valley, the syilx homeland that Canada claimed as its own in 1871. Every single plant you see in this image, […]
