Huckleberry Country
In northeast Washington, there are outdoor activities to spare: skiing, hiking trails, fishing, birdwatching, dog walking, wading or swimming in local lakes. You will add more, I’m sure. Great stuff,…
Can we talk about the weather again? As disappointed as I was in the lack of snow this winter, I was delighted at the beginning of February to see not…
I was promised a moose. In fact, I was promised a moose once before, so this is nothing new. Are moose promises legal and binding, or are they merely lures…
I stopped making New Year’s resolutions a long time ago when I finally admitted to myself that I like the creating of them more than I enjoy the execution. However,…
There are places in small towns that don’t announce themselves loudly. They don’t feel like institutions. They feel more like secrets passed hand to hand. The kind of place someone…
It’s been memed to death, but the words of Ned Stark (Game of Thrones) ring true every year in the Inland Northwest: “Winter is coming.” You’d think having lived in…
Every year, about mid-November, when you start to see naked trees and feel that certain something in the air, do you say to yourself, “Man, I can’t wait for it…
If you’ve spent time in this area for any amount of time, you may know fall and winter is a popular time for the hunters to emerge. Maybe you’ve been…
There’s a meme going around Facebook that says: “You know you’re old when you drive around and say, ‘I remember when all this was forest.’” As if I needed yet…
By Robin Milligan If you stepped onto the Newport wharf on a warm July afternoon in 1908, the town would hum with expectation. Men in stiff jackets adjusted their hats,…