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Smart Architecture
Architecture is an art that balances functionality, beauty, innovation and tradition. It gives us stuff like this: American Robin Summer House, Keremeos Grass and mud living quarters, decorated with...
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Hi-Tech Water
Trees don’t always need much water. Here’s an apple tree that is doing very fine, thank you very much, without irrigation: Apple Tree Standing Like a Horse in a Field Coldstream Ranch Here’s a pine...
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Birds at Work
Want to get your colour palette right? Follow the birds! They make art, too. Staghorn Sumac Think of it like a paintbrush. And what do the birds make of it? Jackson Pollock, move over. The kings are...
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I Am the Mountain
Today, let’s go on a little journey to my home valley, the Similkameen. I’d like to show you the link between a part of the earth, my recent posts on photography and light, and how this blog came about...
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The Black Moons of Mid-Winter
Fools call these moons asian pears and eat them before they are ripe. She was once the golden sun of September. Now she is ripe and oozing mysterious sugar. This is fruit for the soul.
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Puddinhead Mountain Wakes
In the valley that raised me and gave me my children, the old volcanic country of the Similkameen, filled with the gravel glaciers gouged out of the Okanagan to the east, the mountains are the sky, and...
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The Mysterious Similkameen
Here where the glaciers ground each other to a halt and ate down into the earth instead, the Apex volcanic complex meets the North Cascades. After so many millions of years, they’re still talking it out.
View ArticleBeauty and the Bees
I spent the day yesterday at Tree to Me, an organic orchard in the Similkameen Valley. The apples were in bloom. Before grafting some apple trees and maintaining the grafts I put […]
View ArticleFire in the Similkameen
Things are burning up in the high country between Keremeos and the Pasayten wilderness. Here was the view Thursday morning, looking south from Olalla towards K Mountain. By 4 pm I left […]
View ArticleA Mountain of Stories
All day, I pruned fruit trees under this cliff. Above Keremeos The faces appear on the edge of dark, with only fifteen minutes of light left. There sure are a lot of […]
View ArticleWhen Is a Mountain Not a Mountain? When a River is Not a River and a Sea is...
When there is no soil, trees still grow. They also grow on an almost vertical rock face, and in a dry valley, at that. Puddin’head Mountain, Keremeos What you can’t do with […]
View ArticleThe Face of a Mountain
The face of a cliff, that’s what gets said. It’s accurate enough, except that the understanding of it has suffered a knock to the side of the head, because what’s understood is […]
View ArticleThe Morning Mountain Speaks
The North East wall of the Cascades speaks the news daily with the rising sun above Keremeos. You can note the news yesterday before sunrise. Note the eagle’s beak dividing the […]
View ArticleGetting A Head in the Similkameen
Mountains have heads, faces, arms and shoulders. Here’s one of its heads. It’s not a human head, or an animal head at all, yet it’s a head, above Keremeos this morning in […]
View ArticleThe Artwork that is the Similkameen Valley
The cliff above Keremeos, which burned 2 years ago, is showing faces, long-hidden, watching over the valley. K-Mountain in Mid-Afternoon Light Not to mention a mysterious rock fall among the burn...
View ArticleGreat Two Headed Cliff
For 12,000 years these cliffs west of Keremeos have been revealing their faces like this, and then weathering and retreating from view. This is the newest chapter in this old story. This […]
View ArticleRain in Cascadia is Not the Apocalypse
I just listened to a couple Canadian reporters talk about the stress of reporting on climate change and a hostile Earth firsthand during last months floods here in Northern Cascadia, and how […]
View Article19. All This Land Was Water Once
There is no need to think in straight lines. Lines like that say “this stuff is land”… … and “this other stuff is water.” That is simply a false division. There’s an […]
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