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[valentins-study]

Oct. 7th | Flashcards!!

SOTD: Sisters of Mercy - "Alice"

Today was a pretty low-stress day! I did a few hours of reading for my creative writing class in one of my college's study rooms, and added my post to the discussion board, PLUS 1 of the 2 required replies.

I also did an hour or so of review for my German test tomorrow and made flashcards in the evening (43 of them! Hopefully I don't do too badly). It doesn't help that I'm still fighting off a sickness.

[j-k-i-ng]

“The Cascades” 🌙 by | Tyler Grobmeier

North Cascades National Park, Washington

[dream-world-universe]

North Cascades National Park, Washington, United States: North Cascades National Park is an American national park in the state of Washington. At more than 500,000 acres, it is the largest of the three National Park Service units that comprise the North Cascades National Park Complex. North Cascades National Park consists of a northern and southern section, bisected by the Skagit River that flows through the reservoirs of Ross Lake National Recreation Area. Lake Chelan National Recreation Area lies on the southern border of the south unit of the park. Wikipedia

[scottpartridge]

Loon and Swan, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham WA. The museum, housed in the old city hall building, has an extensive collection of 20th century stuffed birds.

[acelessthan3]

We started Thanksgiving dinner at our house with an acknowledgement that we live on and are celebrating on unceded Coast Salish/Nooksack/Lummi territory and to support tribal water rights as they are particularly pertinent regarding county-level governmental and legal oversight right now.

https://www.bellinghamherald.com/opinion/op-ed/article247292854.html

Lummi Nation asks for meaningful action on Nooksack water rights issues

The Lummi Nation and the Nooksack Indian Tribe petitioned the Department of Ecology for an adjudication of the Nooksack basin water.

https://www.re-sources.org/2020/07/nooksack-adjudication/

What's a general stream adjudication, and why does the Nooksack need it? | RE Sources

Here’s the two-sentence story — An adjudication is a thorough analysis of a river system to make sure everyone who’s using water from it (in

[visualworms]

ig @ visualworm

[walaw717]

During the summer of 1956, author Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) spends 63 days as a U.S. Forest Service fire lookout on Desolation Peak in the Mount Baker National Forest in Whatcom County. Kerouac hopes to use the solitude to write, but he will be disappointed. His experiences in the Northwest and his journal entries will provide material for two novels: The Dharma Bums (1958) and Desolation Angels (1960).

"And suddenly I saw the Northwest was a great deal more than the little vision I had of it in my mind. It was miles and miles of unbelievable mountains on all horizons in the wild broken clouds, Mount Olympus and Mount Baker, a giant orange sash in the gloom over the Pacific-ward skies that led I knew toward the Hokkaido Siberian desolations of the world. I huddled against the bridgehouse hearing the Mark Twain talk of the skipper and the wheelman inside. In the deepened dusk fog ahead the big red neons saying: PORT OF SEATTLE. And suddenly everything Japhy had ever told me about Seattle began to seep into me like cold rain, I could feel it and see it now, and not just think it. It was exactly like he'd said: wet, immense, timbered, mountainous, cold, exhilarating, challenging. The ferry nosed in at the pier on Alaskan Way and immediately I saw the totem poles in old stores and the ancient 1880-style switch goat with sleepy firemen chug chugging up and down the waterfront spur like a scene from my old dreams, the old Casey Jones locomotive of American, the only one I ever saw that old outside of Western movies, but actually working and hauling boxcars in the smoky gloom of the magic city. "

[catsnroses]

Crisp - Bagley Creek, North Cascades National Park, Wa

Taken by @catsnroses with a Samsung Galaxy S7 - October 2019