So it has been cool but clear for the past week or so, and with the mild weather, great clouds of tree-fluff have been sailing on the wind past my workplace window. These are the seeds of the cottonwood and poplar trees along the Mercer Slough, which have been floating on the breeze and piling up every nook and cranny, looking for all the world like blond frost.
But from my office, watching them float on the gentle breeze, it is like working in a snow globe.
More later,
The Smith Family quilt
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So, a hundred and fifty years ago, at a place known as The Hollow (later
renamed Ararat), a group of women got together and created a quilt for Rev.
Ne...
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