Painter of the Rain Coast
April 28, 2009
Story and Artwork by Erik Sandgren We live on a lee shore—pounding waves, big trees, big fish, big water, First Peoples, confluences, and tectonic movement. William Blake’s Nobodaddy erupts anew from ancient deeps. Look: Sea stacks on the outer shore rhyme with the vertical accents of old
Canned History: A Tale of Two Labels
April 16, 2009
During the Gilded Age of the late 19th century, the lower Columbia River was deemed the “Salmon Canning Capitol of the World.” This title has long since passed to more northern waters, but for nearly a century, beginning in the 1860s, packing the over-sized salmonoid in
Salmonberry
April 14, 2009
Salmonberry (Rubus spectabilis) “If hemlock forms the weft of the woods, then salmonberry makes the woof-at least in countless swales and slopes where the yellow canes run at all angles to the walker who would needle his way through. Often the appearance of a magenta rose among the
Weather: A Year in Review
April 14, 2009
By Sherman Peabody– We Pacific Northwesterners are sometimes derided by outsiders for our propensity to talk about the weather. They suppose that our webfooted banter is for want of more interesting topics. But, had these climatologically-insensitive souls spent last year in these
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