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Camas couple’s backyard to be highlighted in Clark County tour

There was no garden to converse of in 2008, when Ken and Marge Crouch located the 1.7-acre Camas home that would someday come to be their oasis.

“There was almost nothing right here,” Ken mentioned. “There was no curb attraction.”

Today — soon after yrs of hard get the job done, combined with ingenuity, resourcefulness and purely natural gardening techniques gleaned from area gardening professionals, nursery employees and western gardening books Marge picked up at Powell’s Books in Portland — the couple’s land is a peaceful refuge teeming with hardy native vegetation, fruit trees, flowers and wildlife guests, with ample place for the couple’s six grandchildren to operate and perform amongst the greenery.

“It’s so tranquil and tranquil listed here, primarily at evening,” Ken claimed.

Now retired — Marge experienced been a fifth-grade trainer and librarian in the Camas College District since 1993 and Ken expended 20 years in airline

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Pictures, jewelry highlighted by Port Ludlow Artwork League

PORT LUDLOW — The Port Ludlow Artwork League’s artist of the month is Diane Walker and its jeweler of the thirty day period is Mara Mauch.

The two artists are showcased all over August with displays at Seem Group Bank at the corner of Oak Bay Highway and Osprey Ridge Drive in Port Ludlow and at the Port Ludlow Art League Gallery upcoming door, which is open from midday to 4 p.m. Thursday and Fridays and on the web at www.portludlowart.org.

Just before she began building abstract paintings, Walker was a expert photographer whose award-winning do the job has been featured in books, magazines and galleries throughout the nation. Now her images is integral to her ongoing contemplative follow, organizers claimed.

She began publishing her pictures and poems in 2007 and continues to put up every day on Facebook and at Contemplative Photography.com.

Finest recognised for her boat photos, she

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