In The Moment

the okanagan is a vast cornucopia of vital pleasures, a heady mixture of semi-desert with lush lakes, orchards, ancient myths and villages, towns and cities...

one of those towns is Vernon.  t'were where my father is from.  his family's homestead is long gone, paved over by an industrial park...the willows that he and his family planted there by the creek's edge are still there

another place that hitches right up against Vernon is Coldstream.