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What's Cool :in'?
Mary Offers outlook on politics
and cautions about the future
By MARY DUNCAN
Mary Stephens is combining
her life experiences, her acade-
mic studies and her employment
history to create "something
quite ambitious."
"I've started writing a politi-
cal column and I'm marketing it
through the independent newspa-
per community and I have high
hopes for that," begins this form-
er student of political science
whose doctoral work was at Cor-
nell University.
"I'm hearing people tell me
that I can probably cut the mus-
tard in that realm and what in-
spired me to do that, actually, is I
see some very significant, and
even critical political issues that
need to be addressed primarily at
the local level because that's
where we live after all."
After pausing for a moment,
Mary continues, "I think that
there are some risks out there
that we may not be fully aware of
and I've managed to develop a
rather humorous folksy style in
my little Mason column to ad-
dress those sorts of topics. It's not
always prudent or possible even
to raise those sorts of issues in
conventional political planning
and economic development cir-
cles.
"I'M DEFINITELY public-in-
terest oriented. I'm from the old
school, been in politics all my
life, from an old political family
back East actually," Mary ex-
plains. "I did not go into politics
per se myself, probably too much
of an intellectual nerd for that."
She smiles and chuckles.
Born in Manhattan and
raised in the Bahamas when it
was still a British colony, Mary
says her grandparents were ac-
tive in the labor movement in
New York City and helped start
the International Ladies Gar-
ment Workers Union. During
the '60s her family was active in
the Civil Rights Movement, she
adds.
• "I'm very committed to de-
mocracy as a form of govern-
ment," she declares. "In my
years of independent contracting
in the political arena I've just
about seen it all actually. I think
the ball is back in the average
citizen's court now."
The South Beach Bulletin car-
ries her six-weeks-old column
"Leaving the Comfort Zone," but
she's aiming for a wider distri-
bution. "I'm living on Mason
Lake now and my folks are liv-
ing on a beautiful, and somewhat
similar lake in the state of
Maine," she says. "They're very
well networked in the indepen-
dent newspaper community back
there so they're circulating some
A SELF-PROCLAIMED DREAMER, Mason Lake resident
Mary Stephens is embarking on a foray into political
journalism.
of my items in the small news-
paper community in Maine, so
we've got a coastal connection
going now.
"THERE ARE A lot of paral-
lels between Washington State
and Maine although a lot of peo-
ple in both states don't necessari-
ly realize that 'cause we're so far
apart. If you delete Boeing and
Microsoft, you've basically got a
situation that resembles the state
of Maine economically," she
suggests.
"All the big fishing issues are
the same in both states, the big
timber issues, logging issues,
mill closures - significant sec-
tions of the work force being sud-
denly and dramatically thrown
out of work," Mary comments.
"And very similar types of people
- hardworking, honest people
that love the outdoors and care
about their environment."
Of her foray into political
journalism, she states, "I don't
want to give the impression that
I'm necessarily that radical or a
rebel-rouser trying to stir up the
populace. My goal is to gently
and with a sense of humor, edu-
cate the electorate regarding
some issues that I feel very
strongly about."
Mary brought her political
savvy to the West Coast 25 years
ago when she moved from the
Northeast to Pacific County and
established her family there. "I
just fell in love with the place ac-
tually," she states. "I raised my
children there, got them all
through high school, all through
college and now they're all in
Seattle."
THAT IS PART of the reason
Mary relocated to Mason County.
She explains, "Because about
eight years ago I started earning
a living as an independent grant
writer and research-proposal-
writer person and project man-
ager, I literally wanted to get
closer to Seattle - without actual-
ly being in the city because I'm a
country girl. So I moved over
here purely for reasons of geog-
raphy."
Mary has not ever regretted
her decision to move. "I think
that I'm a bit of a dreamer," she
concedes. "I'm an American
dreamer person," she says, add-
ing that she took Horace Greeley,
a newspaperman, up on his
adage "Go west, young man."
"I mean, it's a cliche to say
that it's the environment; it's the
natural world that we have here,"
Mary says, "but there's a lot of
truth in that. There's a lot more
space. There's a lot more free-
dom. I've always been a back-
packer-hiker-camper person but
when you're in New York City,
you've got to go quite a ways be-
fore you can pitch a tent."
She comments on raising her
children out here. "I think with-
out question, it's a much safer
place to raise children and I
lived in northern Pacific County
most of the time. It was sort of
frozen in time in the late 1950s
almost, even though it was the
'80s, you know what I'm saying?
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recipes which won the affections
(or is that confections?) of a
sweetheart.
If you have a special dish to
share with our readers, drop off
the recipe at the Journal office,
Third and Cota streets, or mail it
to Mary Duncan at P.O. Box 430,
Shelton 9584. Please include
your name and telephone
number plus a brief explanation
of why this recipe is a sure-fire
success for lovers.
To arrange for a brief inter-
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4412. The deadline for submit-
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Page 8 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, January 21, 1999
LEE STILLwELL
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"I LIKED THE fact that there's
no random crime, no random
violence the way there is in the
large cities back East. I also
liked the village atmosphere,
and South Bend definitely had
that to offer. It's not really possi-
ble for kids to get in trouble be-
cause everybody knows who
everybody else's kids are," she
suggests.
"Mason County, I think, offers
the best of both worlds because it
has all the qualities of the rural
Northwest but it's also on more of
a development track, hopefully
controlled development," she
says.
With this comment, Mary be-
gins discussing one of her favor-
ite subjects - planning. "I think
clearly that there's a place where
my former background and em-
ployment track record meets
some of my personal preferences
about development in general. I
have had the opportunity to see the
newer style, public works proj-
ects evolve over a period of time,"
she notes.
"I think I have a pretty good
understanding of why there's an
emphasis on planning with a
capital P in the public works
area, espeoially in the North-
west. A lot of that is very legiti-
mate, if you contrast what is hap-
pening here to what has all ready
happened in the other parts of the
country like the Northeast. Of
course, back there you have un-
controlled urban sprawl," she
continues. "You have uncon-
trolled suburban sprawl, stress
on infrastructure that wasn't
planned for and all this sort of
thing with a negative impact on
the environment and the quality
of life.
"NOW ON THE other hand
what we have out here is very,
very strict stringent planning
and I think it's important to not
go to an extreme in that direction
either, because it can have some
consequences that, pardon the
pun, weren't planned for," Mary
asserts, "including a negative
impact on the older, more estab-
lished, very legitimate small
business community. There can
be some unfairness in the way
that community is impacted."
To support her observation, she
offers, "Frankly, if people are
not on the inside track, those who
do get on the inside track of the
hard-core, heavy-duty planning
process are going to come out way
ahead economically due to a
combination of factors."
She has high praise for local
government. "I think that, his-
torically, county government
has probably been one of the best
and most efficient and one of the
most responsible levels of gov-
ernment in our whole country.
That's a personal opinion, but it's
also a professional opinion," she
says.
"One thing that I feel that we
have to be careful of as a local
community is when we import
the ultra-sophisticated, fine-
tuned, heavy-duty planning pro-
cess and we inject it into the local
level," Mary cautions. "We need
to be careful that we're not throw-
ing out the baby with the bath.
Personally over the history of our
country I would give county gov-
ernment an A-plus if you want to
grade it next to state, federal and
the new regional."
THE BUDDING columnist
adds, "I feel very strongly that
the real American problems are
all going to be solved at the local
level. Having said that, I also
need to point out that the greatest
threat to our freedom is coming
from the top down. What we're
dealing with, in my opinion, is a
gradual erosion of the basic
principles upon which our coun-
try was founded."
The first recipe which Mary
shares is one which comes from
the Bahamas, which she notes is
known for its fabulous fish. She
advises that a local favorite fish
can be substituted for grouper.
Poached-baked grouper
1 C. diced carrots
1 C. diced onions
1 C. diced celery
1 lemon and 1 lime, thinly sliced
salt, pepper and cayenne to taste
Preheat oven to 350 ° .
Use a double-decker broiling
pan. Put three cups water and
three bay leaves in bottom pan.
Lightly oil the top pan and place
fish filets on it. Sprinkle diced
vegetables over the fish. Place
lemon and lime slices around
the edges of the fish. Season to
taste.
Place top pan on bottom pan
and place a vented aluminum
foil tent over the fish. Bake 25
minutes. Garnish with thin-
sliced scallions and fresh lemon
and lime wedges.
Another of Mary's favorite
recipes comes from the North-
east. She says, "This one is sim-
ple, yet delicious - a good way to
show off baking skills without
getting into a major production."
The popovers perk up any meat
dish, she adds.
Popovers
1 qt. milk
4 C. flour
8 eggs
1 tbsp. melted butter
i tap. salt
Combine milk and flour. Add
eggs, one at a time while beating
the batter. Add butter and salt
and beat for five minutes. Pour
into well-greased hot muffin
tins.
Bake at 400 ° for 10 minutes,
then at 350 ° for 15 minutes.
Makes 24 popovers.
During her college years,
Mary spent a year living on a
kibbutz in Israel where she says
many people eat salad for break-
fast.
Kibbutznik's early bird salad
1 head romaine lettuce
4 stalks celery
2 C. red cabbage, shredded
I carrots, grated
4 shallots, chopped
1 tomato, cut into wedges
1 hard-boiled egg, grated
For dressing: Combine one
cup of wine vinegar, three cups
oil, one teaspoon dry mustard,
one teaspoon paprika, dash of hot
sauce, salt and pepper to taste and
/4 cup tomato puree. Shake well
and store in refrigerator.
Combine vegetables. Add
dressing and toss. Top each ser-
ving with just a splash of grated
egg. Finish with a few croutons
and a touch of freshly grated
Parmesan cheese.
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GINA TRAVAGLIONE and Tony Gale celebrated
their engagement on Saturday, December 19, at a
party hosted by the bride's parents, Charles and
Cheryl Travaglione of Shelton. The groom-elect's
parents Stan and Karlene Gale of Grand Rapids, tiozL c
Minnesota, were on hand for the festivities. The perce
bride-to-be is a 1991 graduate of Shelton High we:re
School and a 1995 graduate of the University of cert
Washington. She is the marketing coordinator for gaae
Espresso Specialties, Incorporated in Seattle. The lea re
groom-elect graduated from the University of chin,
North Dakota in 1994 and zs a mechanical engineer whih
for ElectroImpact, Incorporated in Mukilteo. The str,)n
couple is planning a late August wedding. '
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int :oq
My camera's rusty, I think.
The courts-and-cops beat didn't
lend itself to photography. So it
felt really good to head out to the
Skokomish Valley Monday to see
how high the water was and take
some pictures.
I hadn't had the foresight to ar-
range for truck transit, so I
turned back before I got to the
area where the county had de-
clared an emergency earlier. But
I did get some shots of the river
roiling along in its gravel-filled
channel, digging away at the
banks of dikes, and shots of water
over the road and such.
The really good pictures were
the ones I didn't get.
There was a car behind me so I
didn't dare stop suddenly to catch
the pair of common goldeneyes
swimming in someone's side yard.
I did manage to stop when a
flock of big, white-breasted sand-
pipers took off just behind a cou-
ple of muddy cattle in a flooded
cornfield, but the birds were out
of range by the time I got the
camera out of its bag and the dir-
ty-faced whiteface ended up out of
focus.
And although I found a place to
pull off before I passed the bridge
cle
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around. It flew away. i
I got one picture precisely I
cause it couldn't get away.
In that photo, a grassy clear£1
that was recently a homesi
slopes down into the flooded vJ
ley where the expanded river |':
undates Bourgault Road. A briJ
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wider at the peak of the flooding:)
And salmon, seeking a spa .,i'i
ing ground, must have run up
freshet. The grass on both sides$!j
the stream is strewn with the
ting carcasses of salmon, so::
covered with mold, some clean
down to backbones. :
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ing valley is a study in displac:il comr
ment displaced water, displace: said.
families, displaced salmon - diS' that
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What's Cool :in'?
Mary Offers outlook on politics
and cautions about the future
By MARY DUNCAN
Mary Stephens is combining
her life experiences, her acade-
mic studies and her employment
history to create "something
quite ambitious."
"I've started writing a politi-
cal column and I'm marketing it
through the independent newspa-
per community and I have high
hopes for that," begins this form-
er student of political science
whose doctoral work was at Cor-
nell University.
"I'm hearing people tell me
that I can probably cut the mus-
tard in that realm and what in-
spired me to do that, actually, is I
see some very significant, and
even critical political issues that
need to be addressed primarily at
the local level because that's
where we live after all."
After pausing for a moment,
Mary continues, "I think that
there are some risks out there
that we may not be fully aware of
and I've managed to develop a
rather humorous folksy style in
my little Mason column to ad-
dress those sorts of topics. It's not
always prudent or possible even
to raise those sorts of issues in
conventional political planning
and economic development cir-
cles.
"I'M DEFINITELY public-in-
terest oriented. I'm from the old
school, been in politics all my
life, from an old political family
back East actually," Mary ex-
plains. "I did not go into politics
per se myself, probably too much
of an intellectual nerd for that."
She smiles and chuckles.
Born in Manhattan and
raised in the Bahamas when it
was still a British colony, Mary
says her grandparents were ac-
tive in the labor movement in
New York City and helped start
the International Ladies Gar-
ment Workers Union. During
the '60s her family was active in
the Civil Rights Movement, she
adds.
• "I'm very committed to de-
mocracy as a form of govern-
ment," she declares. "In my
years of independent contracting
in the political arena I've just
about seen it all actually. I think
the ball is back in the average
citizen's court now."
The South Beach Bulletin car-
ries her six-weeks-old column
"Leaving the Comfort Zone," but
she's aiming for a wider distri-
bution. "I'm living on Mason
Lake now and my folks are liv-
ing on a beautiful, and somewhat
similar lake in the state of
Maine," she says. "They're very
well networked in the indepen-
dent newspaper community back
there so they're circulating some
A SELF-PROCLAIMED DREAMER, Mason Lake resident
Mary Stephens is embarking on a foray into political
journalism.
of my items in the small news-
paper community in Maine, so
we've got a coastal connection
going now.
"THERE ARE A lot of paral-
lels between Washington State
and Maine although a lot of peo-
ple in both states don't necessari-
ly realize that 'cause we're so far
apart. If you delete Boeing and
Microsoft, you've basically got a
situation that resembles the state
of Maine economically," she
suggests.
"All the big fishing issues are
the same in both states, the big
timber issues, logging issues,
mill closures - significant sec-
tions of the work force being sud-
denly and dramatically thrown
out of work," Mary comments.
"And very similar types of people
- hardworking, honest people
that love the outdoors and care
about their environment."
Of her foray into political
journalism, she states, "I don't
want to give the impression that
I'm necessarily that radical or a
rebel-rouser trying to stir up the
populace. My goal is to gently
and with a sense of humor, edu-
cate the electorate regarding
some issues that I feel very
strongly about."
Mary brought her political
savvy to the West Coast 25 years
ago when she moved from the
Northeast to Pacific County and
established her family there. "I
just fell in love with the place ac-
tually," she states. "I raised my
children there, got them all
through high school, all through
college and now they're all in
Seattle."
THAT IS PART of the reason
Mary relocated to Mason County.
She explains, "Because about
eight years ago I started earning
a living as an independent grant
writer and research-proposal-
writer person and project man-
ager, I literally wanted to get
closer to Seattle - without actual-
ly being in the city because I'm a
country girl. So I moved over
here purely for reasons of geog-
raphy."
Mary has not ever regretted
her decision to move. "I think
that I'm a bit of a dreamer," she
concedes. "I'm an American
dreamer person," she says, add-
ing that she took Horace Greeley,
a newspaperman, up on his
adage "Go west, young man."
"I mean, it's a cliche to say
that it's the environment; it's the
natural world that we have here,"
Mary says, "but there's a lot of
truth in that. There's a lot more
space. There's a lot more free-
dom. I've always been a back-
packer-hiker-camper person but
when you're in New York City,
you've got to go quite a ways be-
fore you can pitch a tent."
She comments on raising her
children out here. "I think with-
out question, it's a much safer
place to raise children and I
lived in northern Pacific County
most of the time. It was sort of
frozen in time in the late 1950s
almost, even though it was the
'80s, you know what I'm saying?
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and information before the dead-
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to those who meet the deadline, or
to the production staff at The
Journal.
We're happy to print an-
nouncements of meetings, sales
and public events. All press re-
leases, if they're not typed,
should be printed or hand-writ-
ten carefully with all names,
times and dates printed clearly.
Please submit them on full-sized
pieces of paper and include the
name of a contact person and
telephone number in case The
Journal needs more informa-
tion.
surefire success
Valentine's Day is just a
month away and to honor couples
the February 11 "What's
Cookin'?" column will feature
recipes which won the affections
(or is that confections?) of a
sweetheart.
If you have a special dish to
share with our readers, drop off
the recipe at the Journal office,
Third and Cota streets, or mail it
to Mary Duncan at P.O. Box 430,
Shelton 9584. Please include
your name and telephone
number plus a brief explanation
of why this recipe is a sure-fire
success for lovers.
To arrange for a brief inter-
view, call Mary Duncan at 426-
4412. The deadline for submit-
ting these culinary delights is 5
p.m. Friday, February 2.
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Page 8 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, January 21, 1999
LEE STILLwELL
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"I LIKED THE fact that there's
no random crime, no random
violence the way there is in the
large cities back East. I also
liked the village atmosphere,
and South Bend definitely had
that to offer. It's not really possi-
ble for kids to get in trouble be-
cause everybody knows who
everybody else's kids are," she
suggests.
"Mason County, I think, offers
the best of both worlds because it
has all the qualities of the rural
Northwest but it's also on more of
a development track, hopefully
controlled development," she
says.
With this comment, Mary be-
gins discussing one of her favor-
ite subjects - planning. "I think
clearly that there's a place where
my former background and em-
ployment track record meets
some of my personal preferences
about development in general. I
have had the opportunity to see the
newer style, public works proj-
ects evolve over a period of time,"
she notes.
"I think I have a pretty good
understanding of why there's an
emphasis on planning with a
capital P in the public works
area, espeoially in the North-
west. A lot of that is very legiti-
mate, if you contrast what is hap-
pening here to what has all ready
happened in the other parts of the
country like the Northeast. Of
course, back there you have un-
controlled urban sprawl," she
continues. "You have uncon-
trolled suburban sprawl, stress
on infrastructure that wasn't
planned for and all this sort of
thing with a negative impact on
the environment and the quality
of life.
"NOW ON THE other hand
what we have out here is very,
very strict stringent planning
and I think it's important to not
go to an extreme in that direction
either, because it can have some
consequences that, pardon the
pun, weren't planned for," Mary
asserts, "including a negative
impact on the older, more estab-
lished, very legitimate small
business community. There can
be some unfairness in the way
that community is impacted."
To support her observation, she
offers, "Frankly, if people are
not on the inside track, those who
do get on the inside track of the
hard-core, heavy-duty planning
process are going to come out way
ahead economically due to a
combination of factors."
She has high praise for local
government. "I think that, his-
torically, county government
has probably been one of the best
and most efficient and one of the
most responsible levels of gov-
ernment in our whole country.
That's a personal opinion, but it's
also a professional opinion," she
says.
"One thing that I feel that we
have to be careful of as a local
community is when we import
the ultra-sophisticated, fine-
tuned, heavy-duty planning pro-
cess and we inject it into the local
level," Mary cautions. "We need
to be careful that we're not throw-
ing out the baby with the bath.
Personally over the history of our
country I would give county gov-
ernment an A-plus if you want to
grade it next to state, federal and
the new regional."
THE BUDDING columnist
adds, "I feel very strongly that
the real American problems are
all going to be solved at the local
level. Having said that, I also
need to point out that the greatest
threat to our freedom is coming
from the top down. What we're
dealing with, in my opinion, is a
gradual erosion of the basic
principles upon which our coun-
try was founded."
The first recipe which Mary
shares is one which comes from
the Bahamas, which she notes is
known for its fabulous fish. She
advises that a local favorite fish
can be substituted for grouper.
Poached-baked grouper
1 C. diced carrots
1 C. diced onions
1 C. diced celery
1 lemon and 1 lime, thinly sliced
salt, pepper and cayenne to taste
Preheat oven to 350 ° .
Use a double-decker broiling
pan. Put three cups water and
three bay leaves in bottom pan.
Lightly oil the top pan and place
fish filets on it. Sprinkle diced
vegetables over the fish. Place
lemon and lime slices around
the edges of the fish. Season to
taste.
Place top pan on bottom pan
and place a vented aluminum
foil tent over the fish. Bake 25
minutes. Garnish with thin-
sliced scallions and fresh lemon
and lime wedges.
Another of Mary's favorite
recipes comes from the North-
east. She says, "This one is sim-
ple, yet delicious - a good way to
show off baking skills without
getting into a major production."
The popovers perk up any meat
dish, she adds.
Popovers
1 qt. milk
4 C. flour
8 eggs
1 tbsp. melted butter
i tap. salt
Combine milk and flour. Add
eggs, one at a time while beating
the batter. Add butter and salt
and beat for five minutes. Pour
into well-greased hot muffin
tins.
Bake at 400 ° for 10 minutes,
then at 350 ° for 15 minutes.
Makes 24 popovers.
During her college years,
Mary spent a year living on a
kibbutz in Israel where she says
many people eat salad for break-
fast.
Kibbutznik's early bird salad
1 head romaine lettuce
4 stalks celery
2 C. red cabbage, shredded
I carrots, grated
4 shallots, chopped
1 tomato, cut into wedges
1 hard-boiled egg, grated
For dressing: Combine one
cup of wine vinegar, three cups
oil, one teaspoon dry mustard,
one teaspoon paprika, dash of hot
sauce, salt and pepper to taste and
/4 cup tomato puree. Shake well
and store in refrigerator.
Combine vegetables. Add
dressing and toss. Top each ser-
ving with just a splash of grated
egg. Finish with a few croutons
and a touch of freshly grated
Parmesan cheese.
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Travaglione, Gale to wed L
GINA TRAVAGLIONE and Tony Gale celebrated
their engagement on Saturday, December 19, at a
party hosted by the bride's parents, Charles and
Cheryl Travaglione of Shelton. The groom-elect's
parents Stan and Karlene Gale of Grand Rapids, tiozL c
Minnesota, were on hand for the festivities. The perce
bride-to-be is a 1991 graduate of Shelton High we:re
School and a 1995 graduate of the University of cert
Washington. She is the marketing coordinator for gaae
Espresso Specialties, Incorporated in Seattle. The lea re
groom-elect graduated from the University of chin,
North Dakota in 1994 and zs a mechanical engineer whih
for ElectroImpact, Incorporated in Mukilteo. The str,)n
couple is planning a late August wedding. '
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int :oq
My camera's rusty, I think.
The courts-and-cops beat didn't
lend itself to photography. So it
felt really good to head out to the
Skokomish Valley Monday to see
how high the water was and take
some pictures.
I hadn't had the foresight to ar-
range for truck transit, so I
turned back before I got to the
area where the county had de-
clared an emergency earlier. But
I did get some shots of the river
roiling along in its gravel-filled
channel, digging away at the
banks of dikes, and shots of water
over the road and such.
The really good pictures were
the ones I didn't get.
There was a car behind me so I
didn't dare stop suddenly to catch
the pair of common goldeneyes
swimming in someone's side yard.
I did manage to stop when a
flock of big, white-breasted sand-
pipers took off just behind a cou-
ple of muddy cattle in a flooded
cornfield, but the birds were out
of range by the time I got the
camera out of its bag and the dir-
ty-faced whiteface ended up out of
focus.
And although I found a place to
pull off before I passed the bridge
cle
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over the little creek near Hunte .... stron
place, I missed the perfect pictt abou'
of the kingfisher perched on safet:
"No Fishing from Bridge" sign.
The kingfisher wasn't wait pC
around. It flew away. i
I got one picture precisely I
cause it couldn't get away.
In that photo, a grassy clear£1
that was recently a homesi
slopes down into the flooded vJ
ley where the expanded river |':
undates Bourgault Road. A briJ
I
rain-fed stream runs through tl
clearing. It's obvious that it r
wider at the peak of the flooding:)
And salmon, seeking a spa .,i'i
ing ground, must have run up
freshet. The grass on both sides$!j
the stream is strewn with the
ting carcasses of salmon, so::
covered with mold, some clean
down to backbones. :
A drive through the overflo pres(
ing valley is a study in displac:il comr
ment displaced water, displace: said.
families, displaced salmon - diS' that
placed salmon in fields, in ditc'i mss:
es, in the yards of abandone id TI
houses. : help
If a picture is ,worth a tho. I by
sand words, what s the olfactod agre
equivalent? The very air was el¢ thinl
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