A belated solstice

Sunrise on this year’s winter solstice: I always try to see the sun rise on solstice cuz it feels important somehow — and this year, the sun actually did sort of perceptibly rise, although it took a while for it to get over the clouds. So, I know it’s been …

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It’s rainbow season!!

This is some of the weather I love most, the rain followed by bursts of sunshine that make the just-passed and the also-still-impending dark clouds even more dramatic. The thickening air that smells, everywhere, like flowers. The bird songs — not the bird chatter, but the actual songs, the musical …

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Reprieve

This is the time of year in the Northwest where it sometimes starts to feel like it’s been grey forever. It hasn’t been, exactly — there have been moments or days even of brilliant and beautiful weather — but early last week was so, so rainy, so low-cloud dreary, the …

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