The great plume draws the seas down out of the skies.
Fog Rivers Pour Out of Yellowstone
Taking Back the Earth
The air is colder than the earth. The sun burns right through it, yet does not touch its cold. But that sun is caught by the earth, and all my beautiful […]
Seeing in the Dark: A Meditation on Science, Art and Human Nature…part 1
I was walking the other day, as I like to do (it’s a way of thinking and breathing at the same time), when I felt myself walking into something and, you know, I […]
Greenhouses Made Out of Snow
The coyotes come on by in the fog. Heavy coyote traffic, really. Birds trit trot through.Mule Deer stalk along. And the grasses and sages use the energy from these travellers and peck-peckers… … […]
The Sacred Rowan
When trees are sacred, the earth doesn’t turn into a desert. And birds come, too, out of the air.
Two Ways to Turn Winter Into Summer
1. Pines, Sun and Water Look how this ponderosa pine’s needles are designed to radiate heat. This helps for cooling in the summer. In the winter, the design helps the tree to collect […]
Air: The Primary Human Habitat
Our earth is not just a glob of rocks … spinning around the sun, and not just vast seas of water sloshing around at the pull of the moon … … but is also […]
Spring Has Sprung In the Okanagan
Spring is here, friends, and it looks like this. That’s some mighty fine fog rolling over from the “Head of the Lake Indian Reserve”, isn’t it. That falling action, though, that’s part of […]
It’s Lovely in the Okanagan When There’s No Sky
What’s not to love?
Okanagan Rhododendrons and Climate Change
In the Okanagan Valley, rhododendrons, so glorious in the rain forests on the Pacific Coast, and so frost tender, grow at elevations between 3,000 and 5,000 feet, in moose swamps of black spruce, alder, […]
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