July 25, 2003

• Tired but a good kind of tired.
  
  Pruned some trees. I like pruning trees. I’d like it even more if I could really go to town with it, but I mustn’t piss off the landlord.
  
  I’ve been itching to get a mini-micro photographic road trip happening, off to, say, Leavenworth for a night. I’d want to go to North Cascades, but there’s a bit of a huge gargantuan forest fire filling the air with smoke.
  
  I’ve also been thinking about tracing the Columbia River to its source. I doubt I’ll ever do it, but it would be an interesting sort of thing to write a series of travel essays about. It’d have everything from Pacific coast ecosystems to Lewis and Clark to Hanford Nuclear Site to the ecology of the dams to Kennewick Man to the geology of the big flood to the apple and wine grape orchards to Native American reservations to Canadian border crossing to cultural differences to the foothills of the Canadian Rockies. And other stuff, too.
  

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