Methow Valley Summer 2010
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Beneath summer’s pretty veneer By Sue Misao
COME AND EXPLORE WHAT WE HAVE TO OFFER.. Great Food ~ Great Coffee Great Friends Espresso ~ Lattes ~ Mochas ICED or HOT
Lite Breakfast All Day ~ Yogurt Parfaits Homemade Baked Goods Daily Made To Order Deli Sandwiches Panini’s ~ Salads ~ Soup Beer & Wine Dine Indoors ~ Take Out Or Enjoy Our Shaded Veranda
Weekend Breakfast Specials 6:30 ~ Noon Include: Biscuits & Gravy ~~ French Toast & Crispy Belgian Waffles w/Fresh Fruit
501 hwy 20 Winthrop Photo by Sue Misao
Butterflies are free, flowers are not.
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ummer is always an interesting time of year, if you find things like the “time of year” interesting. In theory, the summer season begins on Memorial Day and ends at Labor Day, implying that between worrying about your death and contemplating your dead-end job you should at least get in a little paragliding, hiking and mountain biking, jump in a lake or go climb a rock. Those things may or may not pay the rent, but it’s what we do, here, in America. In the Methow, we are lucky summer doesn’t bring monsoons, but if it did we probably wouldn’t call them that. Our big summertime weather event is always fire. Monsoons would get in the way of that. Most people hope we don’t have a fire, but there are some people – not just firefighters and cooks – who secretly love a giant raging wildfire so long as it isn’t coming straight at them in the next 10 minutes. It’s exciting. Once you add the helicopters it’s downright warlike. Summer is the best time of year for other things, in-
cluding having your car break down or running out of firewood. It’s also a convenient season to not go on vacation, since this is probably where you used to go for vacation before you moved here and stopped having vacations. The best part of summer is the way colors clash without upsetting us. The colors of summer are often so ruthlessly vibrant they are nearly painful to look at, which explains why human people don’t normally dress in them. As sensible and compassionate beings, we’re careful not to traumatize those around us. Flowers don’t care, and
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their butterfly counterparts are equally insensitive. The question is, do flowers like us? Butterflies, of course, are free to leave if you start to annoy them, but flowers are stuck and have to resort to more subtle expressions of distaste. When you’re near, they stand there smiling at everything, but once you leave the garden, who knows what dreadful things they say about you, about your clothes, about your friends, or the way you under- or over-water? Flowers will turn around and stab you in the back every time. It’s a known fact.
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