A golden afternoon on the Slocan River in late June, paddling a prototype of the traditional Sinixt sturgeon-nosed canoe with my dog Dellie in pursuit. In the evening, I spoke to a bi-national group of students from Hamilton College in upstate New York and our local Selkirk College about the Columbia River Treaty. They are […]
My constant companion
She is a coyote crossed with sheltie, a gift from the dense woods on the east shore of Kootenay Lake. Dellie goes everywhere with me, and picks up many friends along the way, even some who gift her with crowns of woven Hawk’s weed. This invasive plant has never looked so good.
A summer office beside Kootenay Lake
I sit here in early morning, watching the swallows dance across the water’s surface, dipping close to harvest bugs, rising up again to deliver them into a waiting nest of young.
Fairy Bells
On a springtime walk, along a path I have followed so many times, I came across a lush, knee-high forest of Fairy Bells (Prosartes hookeri), spreading beneath the shade of an evergreen forest. How could I have missed this charm and beauty, all these years?
The presence of Coyote
In March, at Woodhaven eco-preserve in Kelowna, I came across the secretive presence of Coyote – this scat deposit on a bed of moss. I added this to my image library of various animal scats, secretive signs of a wild thing having passed this way.
Big Paw
Heavy rain in early June made for mud on dirt roads. I found this bear paw print in the forest high above the West Arm of Kootenay Lake