Eagle Creek • Welches • Brightwood
Rhododendron • Government Camp • Troutdale
Corbett /Springdale • Barton • Carver
Fairview and Wood Village
May 20th, 2013
by Julie Gomez            While hiking the other day, instead of taking the trail to the left, as I so often do, I took the trail to the right. Either direction, upriver or downriver, the Sandy River hurried wildly… Read more
Hardy laurel, myrtlewood misnomers, and monkey-bush
May 20th, 2013
by Chuck Bolsinger            Last summer, my wife and I stopped at a gift shop in a coastal town in southern Oregon and admired their myrtlewood ware—bowls of various sizes, salt and pepper shakers, clocks, sconces, bookends, etc.,… Read more
The most beautiful fern on earth
April 10th, 2013
by Julie Gomez Ferns are one of those plants that nearly everyone enjoys, myself included. One of my favorites is the lovely western maidenhair; even the name is intriguing. Some say it is the most beautiful fern on Earth. I agree. In addition… Read more
How Lucky learned to snake dance
April 10th, 2013
by Chuck Bolsinger Something was terribly wrong at home, but I didn’t know it yet when I got off the school bus and began walking down the unmaintained road that led to my grandparents’ farm, a mile to the north. A high school junior, I’d… Read more
Hardy laurel, myrtlewood misnomers, and monkey-bush
April 10th, 2013
by Chuck Bolsinger Last summer, my wife and I stopped at gift shop in a coastal town in southern Oregon and admired their myrtlewood ware—bowls of various sizes, salt and pepper shakers, clocks, sconces, bookends, etc., etc. … Read more
