In my valley, the Okanagan, winter is a time for the earth and the ocean — and the people who actually love the land and not an image of it. It’s not […]
Global Warming, Human Made
It ain’t just smokestacks. Here’s a field of stones … The panels were made to cover with plastic sheeting (now removed), into which were planted tomatoes. Here are some of them, looking […]
Sacred Woods
Rowans have more than blood and wisdom. Speech Second Sight Longing When blood, wisdom, and gravity are one, then you will find her. ~ All images from Turtle Mountain. All rowans the […]
The Beauty of Spring in November
In November, in Cascadia, it is springtime, whether you are in the wetlands on an island in the ocean … Oyster Bay, Vancouver Island … or far inland, in the grasslands, where […]
What A Difference Five Days Makes in an Apple Orchard!
Sunday Thursday Weather is stripping the light out of the air at about the same speed as it is stripping the leaves from the trees!
The Lonely Vigil of the Invasive Species
Plastic Owl, Waiting for Its own Kind
There’s More Than One Way to Find the Light
Creating a tension with gravity is key. Blue-bunched wheat grass and big sage.
Better Than a Zen Garden
Imagine if hills were opened to create this instead of roads or shopping malls. Drilled and blasted bedrock in a quarry, with a limestone spring from the seabeds high above, a young […]
An Anthropocene Idyll in the Okanagan Petro State
Ah, lunchtime in the park. The joys of nature in the beautiful Okanagan Valley.Sure. New word: anthrobscene. (You know, you might disagree with me on that, but, really, if this is what […]
Why Wine Gives You a Buzz
In case you were wondering!
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