“Evelyn and her husband, David, had good careers, hers with the University of Oregon, his as an architect. The expectation was that they would work until retirement, but the couple stepped off that path and moved to a tiny trailer on twenty-one acres in the Coast Range. Living off the grid, without running water or electricity, they fashioned a life in harmony with nature. Their passion for landscape became their career as they found work gardening. Plants grown on their little piece of paradise could be sold to bring in some needed income. Hess revels in the change of seasons, the colorful leaves in the fall, the explosion of brilliantly colored flowers in the spring, the warmth of summer. The memoir is full of encounters with wildlife: a tawny mother deer and her fawn, a dog-food eating bear and marauding rodents. It’s a celebration of a simple life.”—Deon, Sunriver Books and Music, Sunriver, OR. Buy To The Woods from Sunriver Books & Music.
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To The Woods by Evelyn Hess
September 8, 2011