
I was completely across the country, but the sky and weather in Hartford, Connecticut wanted me to believe that I had not left the Pacific Northwest. The multi-petal cherry trees bloomed in CT as they were blooming in Seattle; the petal confetti graced the sidewalks and stirred in cool breezes. When I go south to California, the color of the sky's blue fades to a laid-back, bleached denim. Over the weekend I walked under skies the same hue as home. Had I not travelled for hours to get there, I could have believed that I was in an unfamiliar city somewhere near Portland. The convincing detail was the proliferation of violets. The little flowers grow wildly among the dandelions and look just as healthy.
This was my first trip further east than Utah, and my first in-the-same-geography meeting with
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