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How To Find The Summer Constellations
770 wordsFinding Lyra – The Lyre Vega is the brightest star in the summer sky, so it’s a great starting point to orient yourself amongst the constellations. After dusk, look straight up and slightly to the east. See that bright, yellowish star? That’s Vega in the constellation Lyra. Lyra is one of the three constellations that…
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By The Salmon River
151 wordsThe water pulls in all directions, folding and unfolding, layered with white foam that spreads like spider-webs. It flickers against the cedar trees, painting dappled sunlight over their trunks, bathing them in the same milky quality as light threaded through fog. And on the shore there are fine-haired stalks of cow parsnip, and spiraled bracken…
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Oregon’s Native Edible Berries And When They’re Ripe
740 wordsOne of the best things about summer is harvesting local berries! There are so many here in Oregon that I had to narrow it down to some of the best tasting and most common. Let me know if you try any of them, and always be careful when eating wild foods—if you’re not 100% sure…
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Balsamroot Hill
256 wordsThe wind folds through the grass, turning it over, sculpting it, and, if you listen closely, you can hear the grass as it bends. In the distance there is the ever-present hum of the river, a muffled noise pressing in on you from somewhere far off, somewhere beyond the crest of the hill, and in…
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