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. […]
Beautiful Wasp
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, […]
The Rose is a Powerful Teacher
Roses that grow in the open… … are easy enough to walk around and harvest, for humans, deer and late winter birds. It’s when they grow inside a thicket, planted there by […]
The Wrong Grass
When they’re happy, they climb the grass. When worried, they go back down. This is slow motion life. Try it again. Up. Down. I can’t help but think that a native grass […]
The Hand is Getting Along Fine On Its Own
There’s an energy wave that we see as landscape. Here’s my bit. Let me suggest that this is not a native landscape but a created one. Nature, let’s call it. A native […]
One Bird Can Make Your Day
When is an invasive species not, well, an invasive species? Chinese Elm Fooling Around With Light and Shadow Because it Can I mean, a really invasive species, with a kazillion seeds that […]
A Ring Around The Sun
Light travels at 299 792 458 metres per second, and if you can’t see that, don’t worry: you almost can. When cloud is pushed very high by heat, and thins, and spreads out to […]
The Unofficial Vernon City Dump(s)
While we’re all limiting contact with other humans because contact can kill us, it’s a fine time to consider what other poisonous contact we are having. For example: On What Planet is […]
Making Heat and Harvesting Cold: If You Don’t Like the Season, Change it
Let’s revisit an image from a few days back, in which I showed how heat and cold met in a deer trail and a red medicine willow, not to mention a tangle […]
The Illusion of Retirement: the View from the Okanagan
When industry is “housing development”… …it means that people live in industrial sites. They put up with it because houses will increase in value when the neighbours start building. The bigger the […]
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