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Picnic Shelter | Crescent Bar, WA | October 2019 Please raise a cold chicken wing in salute of the unsung architects who design picnic shelters, pit toilets, benches and other park amenities. These structures are mostly utilitarian copies built fast and cheap. But sometimes a design goes beyond providing shade and shelter to let innovation…
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Hills | East Wenatchee, WA | October 2019 Practical advice | Expert landscapers mostly follow principles established by Mother Nature, including repetition of plant shapes and colors. “These are known as [design] echoes and help hold the landscape together as a whole, instead of a bunch of parts,” says ag scientist Greg Grant at Texas…
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Afloat | Moses Lake, WA | October 2019 Sure, it’s easy to lose our bearings in inclement conditions — fog, smoke, blazing sun, blowing dust or snow. But sometimes all it takes is low-level spectacle — something simple, nothing astounding — to tilt our world off-kilter. Such as: echoes bouncing in a narrow canyon, pine…
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Library Room | Wenatchee, WA | October 2019 The library room where the kids’ story hour takes place is mostly empty now — one chair and illuminated reminders that light travels in a straight line. The strips emphasize the room’s geometry: Parallel bands in a cube of quiet. I squat low to feel the warmth…
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Decay | East Wenatchee, WA | October 2019 We seniors usually don’t dwell too long on the metaphor of autumn. Shortening of days, dimming of colors, prepping for the long rest — you laughing yet? But it’s healthy once a year to get our bearings in the cycle of life, acknowledge what’s behind us and,…
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Dove | East Wenatchee, WA | September 2019 The best explanations of how electricity works are written for fifth-graders. Circuits, electrons, energy flows, positive-negative charges — we non-electricians understand them better when descriptions are dumbed waaaay down. Even then, we can’t really comprehend the nature of amps and volts. How does electricity actually flow through…
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Car Wash | East Wenatchee, WA | September 2019 “Let that green light guide me in. Let that drizzle of water mist over my windshield. And let me sit back and watch those wondrous, thick colors melt and swirl in front of me, mixing and blending. Better than the greatest show in the sky because…
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Spider | Wenatchee, WA | September 2019 One mystery to ponder while waiting in the car for my spouse is Earth’s diversity of life. How could the same surface conditions — air, light, gravity — produce such varied creatures? That spider on the parking bollard has legs too wispy for nerves or blood, right? So…
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Mullein | Mazama, WA | September 2019 Mullein is my totem plant, if such a thing exists. I admire how it thrives in adverse conditions — dirt piles, roadside ditches, boulder cracks — and still maintains a stoic bearing. Herbal health websites list it as one of the top medicinal plants, able to soothe wounds…
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