Self-taught wildlife photographer Paul Brennan will have four of his images featured during Crescendo: A Symphonic Celebration of Washington Landscape on April 26, where his work will be paired with live, nature-inspired music by the Northwest Symphony Orchestra.
Mine too! So much work for something so gross.
I picked pole beans in the Puyallup Valley in WA when I was 12 and white kids still did that. We got 2 cents a pound and took lots of breaks. I didn't know much but I knew enough to be in awe of the migrant picker near me who made $20 a day.
My exofficios are still hanging in after 15 years or so and they do dry really fast.
All true. If they do maul or kill you it won't be for ego or bragging rights. They won't enjoy humiliating you. But you'll still be mauled or dead. You can't take them down with self defense moves or guile and maybe not with a gun. As an assault survivor, I like my chances better with men. YMMV
Fair enough.
Very few of us have had experience with both for comparison. How about a poll of women who have encountered both?
This is why I don't want him in prison. I want him sentenced to look after himself in a studio apartment on a Social Security income. Shopping, cooking, cleaning, laundry, no outside help. Not a martyr to his faithful, just a cluless dweeb. Prison for Miller though.
After big dams on the upper Klamath River in far northern CA were removed in 2024, Chinook (king) salmon migrated upstream for the first time in 100+ years--and now they have hatched.
This comparison was a big help to me.
This is a lovely and powerful zine about the logging of the Box of Rain legacy forest parcel in Whatcom County. It also shows of how good our new brand new website looks at Salish-Current.org
salish-current.org/2026/04/13/p...
"Your temperment's wrong for the priesthood, and teaching would suit you still less.
"Son be a dentist. You'll be a success."
Little Shop of Horrors
I still use three of those -- record player, outside clothesline and the Sunday paper.
The frozen mango I get at Grocery Outlet is affordable but not that ripe, so it's got a little tang to set off the blander blueberries. The colors look nice together too.
Every day, we consume tree products, often without knowing it. The tears of trees, gums and resins, are ubiquitous in our lives. The fragrance of frankincense is probably familiar to most of us. We encounter tears of trees every day, in food, drink, cosmetics, printed pages, and may not realize it.
Great name! My parents had a cat named Laptop.
I like my fruit desserts to taste like fruit. We use the same system for bueberry mango pie (with frozen fruit) and it rules. Crisps are great too.
It didn't use a recipe but there's no doubt one out there.
Rhubarb apple pie with candied ginger. Put sugar on the chopped rhubarb to draw out the juice and thicken that with cornstarch or flour or ground nuts or whatever you like. The pectin in the apple will help gel it too. Better than custard. Better than strawberry rhubarb. Bettter than most things.
Dale -- an authoritarian scaredy-cat -- forgot to use his "I statements": "I am terrified of people who don't take my nonsense seriously."
Rottweiler lying on his back on our stair landing.
I go barefoot in the house. When I put socks on my old guy perks up. If I go to the room where the shit bags are he starts dancing. Neither of those things has just happened.
Also old enough to remember "destroying villages in order to save them" in Vietnam
Whatcom County is preparing to release a new jail needs assessment as officials debate size, cost and how to balance incarceration with behavioral health investments.
The current facility is overcrowded, but funding challenges and differing priorities continue to shape the project.
Handwritten note by the door saying "Don't put shit in thy shoe. Love they foot and daughter and wife."
Child's poster with drawings of glasses, cell phone and car, plus three juice stains turned into animals. Text reads "Do not forget Glases? fone? car cease. Do you hav it all?"
Elder care: We are old. I head out minus keys, glasses, phone. Husband stashes little things in his shoes and then forgets, which is bad as he has lost feeling in his feet and doesn't notice until they do damage. His daughter and my granddaughter have stepped in. (Husband is a thee/thy Quaker.)
FYI, Seattle.
1. Idaho banned the pride flag on government property. So Boise made the pride flag their official city flag, which allowed them to fly it.
Then Idaho banned new city flags.
So in response, Boise has now wrapped the poles themselves in rainbows!
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Cargo bike and trailer in food bank warehouse
Bags of food in cargo bike
Cargo bike and trailer in front of food bank sign
Pallet of Girl Scout cookies
Today, I delivered another 18 bags of groceries (+ Girl Scout cookies!) from the White Center Food Bank to 9 families in White Center and Seattle for the @cascade.org #PedalingReliefProject – we use bikes, + trailers to bring fresh food by bike to neighbors with mobility or accessibility challenges
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