Shrimp skeletons on Okanagan Lake, eh. The little buggers were introduced to the lake over 40 years ago. Pretty sci-fi. Don’t worry. That sand is imported too. Oh, and the water? Aha. […]
Don’t Be a Settler!
Looking for the Water and Missing the Well
River, run, Rhine, Herons, Assmannshausen am Rhein Rhone, stream, Strom, flow, fleuve, current, rapid, cataract, these are all one word, a Celtic word, for life’s excess, that streams, that rrrrrrrrrrrrrs. It is […]
The Mysterious Surface of Water
When the tension of light on the surface of water is randomly broken, the water no longer looks like water. The random patterns are more attractive to the human mind. It’s because […]
How to Read the Weather, A Conconully Meditation
Read the water. It knows the sky. The reading apparatus is less the eye than the skin, and the body that receives the skin’s reading, but the eye locates the reading and […]
The Miracle of Water
The big sage that held water for years against the pull of the sun, and grew thick with time, now holds water and earth in place by stopping the wind in its […]
Illusions of Water Create Realities of Drought
Volcanic landscape, right? Wrong. It’s made by water. Neskonlith Falls Below is the old periglacial lake bottom of Glacial Lake Kamloops. That flat land is the bottom of the lake. The train […]
The Best Fruit Growing Land
The image below shows an old síyaʔ (saskatoon berry) gathering ground in the Thompson River Gorge, across the river from an ancient village site. Notice the advantage of growing fruit this way: no […]
Smarter, More Ethical Water for the Okanagan
Here’s a great idea about water… …which the Vernon newspaper graciously printed for me. You can find it in the February 26 edition of the Vernon Morning Star, here. If you page […]
Hard Water
No, it’s not ice.
Gravity Pools
Soil. Not soil. 9 years, nothing growing yet. Soil Not soil. Nothing even germinates here. Soil. You find soil where water pools. (Rocks, too.) It is life — a gravitational effect that […]
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