Requiem for a Crabapple

I’m feeling pretty down in the dumps. We discovered last week that our favorite tree has died. It was a ‘Bechtel Improved’ crabapple and was the focal point of our backyard. As you can see by the photo below, it was stunning when it bloomed each spring and had a beautiful branching structure that rarely required pruning. Birds loved sitting […]

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Mar. 6 column

If you live in the Inland Northwest — or in the Pacific Northwest, for that matter — you know that on Nov. 17, 2015, we had a horrific windstorm. There were peak wind gusts of 71 mph, four people lost their lives, there were power outages everywhere, and an incredible amount of damage left in its wake. Now that spring […]

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