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#aprilbookshowers Day 2 - #weather
Rain, snow, and wind 🌧❄️💨 All of these are TBR except for A Voice in the Wind and Water, Wind, Earth and Fire (they both were great reads too).

Pick of the Month is a NF book wherein Timothy Egan travels around the PNW in the steps of the 19th c. travel writer, Theodore Winthrop. Egan catalogues the changes over the centuries, comparing Winthrop's passages w/the current conditions; So we have history + social commentary + descriptive writing. Though it could stand an update (written in the early 1990s,) it's enlightening and truly interesting! (Image: Detail from Rand McNally World Map)

And for #NFnovember, Timothy Egan's travelogue through the PNW in the footsteps of Theodore Winthrop - as a way for the author to connect with the land his own grandfather loved

In court, pricey lawyers from the city try to answer the question: whose life is more endangered, the spotted owl‘s or the logger‘s? Victims of mutual incompatibility, both owl and logger are disappearing in Oregon, a state that once had enough standing timber to rebuild every house in America.

"Without snow on top or verdant trimming of fir below, Rainier would still inspire. We are drawn to the quirks of the planet....[John Muir said Rainier] 'was so fine & so beautiful it might well fire the dullest observer to desperate enthusiasm.'" Appropriate reading material for today's view.