Morning Light: Wildflowers, Night Skies, and Other Ordinary Joys of Oregon Country Life

When Barbara Drake and her husband left Portland and moved to a small farm in western Oregon's Yamhill Valley in the late 1980s, they saw it as a temporary relocation-they would return to the city eventually. But as the couple's experiences on the farm multiplied-training herding dogs, enlisting a pair of traveling dowsers to help them find a good well, and stargazing in a singular nighttime darkness-they decide to hang on to their rural life as long as possible. In Morning Light Drake arti...