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Wenatchee lies miles east of Seattle, past the snow-capped Cascade Mountains, whose passes are sheer rock faces and whose steep fir forests are gashed with crimson where scrub maple grows in the ravines. In these mountain passes the fall rains break and the woods are always wet. Wenatchee, 20 miles away, is a desert, valley, whose volcanic-ash topsoil was once barren of anything but scrub pine...
...service is held in a hall decorated with "a great many flowers and fir branches," and with a charcoal brazier at one end. Four girl attendants hold torches, four boys are trumpeters. Costume: uniform preferred, otherwise white shirt, dark trousers...
...Oregon's low, richly weathered barns, began by designing long, low, rambling houses with wide eaves, which gave "a feeling of protection" against the heavy northwest rains. Because eaves cut off too much light, Belluschi introduced many large, carefully placed windows. His materials were mostly local woods-fir, spruce, cedar, hemlock-which, left in their natural state, colored sumptuously with age and weathering...
...years ago a $350,000,000 forest fire swept over 250,000 acres of Oregon's finest stand of Douglas fir and hemlock. It ravaged more standing timber (mostly in Tillamook County) than the entire U.S. consumed in 1933. Last week logging crews (called "Tillamook minstrels"-the charred bark makes them look like a blackface act) were still carrying on their ten-year race to salvage the billions of board feet of timber (see cut) not yet ruined by the insects that always move in after a big burn...
...home. By midmorning it grew light and she blew out the lamp. It grew warmer, too, and she could no longer see her breath as she stitched quickly, trying to keep up with the new high norms. In past years there had been a New Year's fir tree and presents for the children...