Snow looks white and cold. It looks like a cold carpet over the earth. That’s the way a mammal thinks. A mammal has built itself around its own stove. To the creatures […]
Space: the Human Habitat
The Glorious Winter Sun
Today, joy. Way up high, the sun. High up above us, in the shallows of the sea of glorious winter fog Okanagan Lake gives off for the entire length of its 135 kilometre fresh […]
Winter Sun in the Okanagan
This is when we who live here are simultaneously closest to the earth and living among the stars. Summer can’t beat this!
Winter Flowers and Spring Flowers
The moods of flowering plants are in the whole plant and concentrate in more than just its blooms or fruit. These bud shells, for instance … … are as much blooms as the […]
The Pleasures of Winter
The pleasures of winter are born in spring and harvested in Autumn. Then comes memory, and then the old year again in a new form. Choke Cherries in September, Big Bar Lake […]
Water and Sun Everywhere Dancing
Sun in the lake. Sun in the sky’s lake. Lake and sun flooding over the land … I made these images to show you what the earth looks like underground, but the images […]
Real Plants Don’t Do Drugs
In a petro-state, these are called dead leaves. In a petro-state, the image below is called life. Look closer. Those are the green leaves of petroleum-based nitrogen fertilizer, those are. Life, however, looks like […]
Giant Rye Grass in Its Glory
Grass is a creature of the wind. Of the wind. It’s even pollinated by the wind. It is a sheath for water drawn up by light. It streams in the air. Is […]
Sky Oceans and Sun Storms in the Okanagan
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 […]
The Black Cherries of Winter
It is the time of year when colour leaves the valley. The red choke cherries of summer are black. The skies are grey. The sun we knew in summer is gone. This […]
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