Lucia Hadella

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Writer, wonderer, concerned Earthling.

I'm moving to the midwest in a couple weeks, and I already know that growing up as a Pacific Northwesterner has made me a total water snob. But shouldn't we strive for clear lakes and glistening, rolling rivers? I'm ready to witness, learn, and share.
Why have one trunk when you can have four?! (Plus a fifth on the way...!) . . . Thus continues my love affair with the mighty Pacific madrone // Arbutus menziesii 🌳💕😍
We hiked along the Rogue River this week and found the largest cottonwood leaf I've ever seen🍂. Pretty sure it's Populus trichocarpa, or the black cottonwood🌳. For reference, most cottonwood leaves I've seen are maybe 3-4 inches, tops. Can you be-leaf the size of this thing?? 😯🤯🙄
I went on a run yesterday and checked on the beautiful Deodar cedar at the park. Looking down, I found I was surrounded by what appeared to be roses scattered among the cedar needles. 🌹 The cedar cones (featured in an earlier post) have started falling apart, and these rose-like pieces are what remain. One characteristic of true cedars like the Deodar are their barrel-shaped cones, which eventually fall apart to disperse their seeds 🙃.
We wandered through a magical world in search of a Christmas tree yesterday 🎄. This view is only a 15 min drive from my childhood home in Talent, OR. Though it's delightfully cold and snowy up here now❄, this area was a major worry on my mind during the past summer of fires and constant smoke🔥. I'm still grappling with what it means to live in and reap the benefits of spectacular, forested areas, all the while suffering summers of smoke and fire danger. It's something I'm thinking about, writing and re-writing about, and I hope to have an article ready for publication soon. For now, I have pictures 📸🏕.
We are making a trip across the country today to visit our soon-to-be new place of living: Columbus, Ohio. We flew over the Rocky Mountains into Denver, and it was jaw-dropping. Pretty sure we won't be seeing mountains like these in Ohio 😅.
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