When I pruned these trees, the wind was kaboodling down the Similkameen Valley like a grizzly bear made of dry ice. Sawdust was falling in my face from my saw. My feet […]
The Year of the Kazillion Cherries Has Begun
Hole in the Sky, Not Empty
A couple weeks ago, I told you about a hole that frequently appeared in the clouds above the city of Coldstream. Here’s a picture of it taken five days ago… The image […]
A Sky Map of the City of Coldstream
Downtown Coldstream, on the valley bottom north of Kalamalka Lake, is the hole in the centre of this map of clouds. The ribbed clouds below it are the eastern edge of its […]
Fall Rain in the Grasslands
So, it rains, right. 35 centimetres of snow have already melted. Now the rain. Rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain. And the sun. Melting stuff, even through the clouds of rain. So, […]
Predicting the Weather
The unrelieved heat and dryness of the summer has led to the outcome predicted by those of us who have lived in this valley for a couple generations of memory, or more. […]
One Sky or Another
Or two at once. Hello from down at the bottom of the pool. Anyway you shake it, we are trout looking up.
Earth, Sky and Water East of the Subduction Zone
Look at Okanagan Lake project itself into the sky, as a cloudless space. Storm is trying to move in from the west (and from the northeast), with no luck. Terrace Mountain, in […]
Aerial Mysteries Over Coldstream
For a week now, a hole of air, either empty of cloud or filled with it distinctly from surrounding cloud, has formed over the city of Coldstream, close to the eastern end […]
Un-Naming Okanagan Lake
If I look west down the arm of the fjord lake (Okanagan) from the beach down below my house, I see this kind of thing on some evenings … … and this […]
Humans and Geese and Weather and Geese and Humans and Geese
Canada geese always push their ability to withstand weather by coming back from migration wayyy too early in the spring and then toughing it out. That come-too-early thing is what Canada geese […]
