Summer in the Pacific Northwest is unpredictable. Sometimes, summer weather doesn’t show its face at all until mid July, while other years spring will bring glorious days of temperate perfection and they’ll be interspersed with overcast days with milky sunlight all summer long. But for the first time this year, we had hot, sunny summer weather and no rain from June through August, and consequently, the region was plagued with forest fires. In mid-July, I headed out to the Washington […]