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Get Inside: Nine Things to Do While Stuck at Home This Week Take selfies at the Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival, listen to new old Taylor Swift, and watch a documentary about searching for Sasquatch in a cannabis field. Updated April 27 at 10:30 PM
Go: Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival Surely you’ve seen the photos on your Instagram over the last few weeks: friends in light summer wear, posing in front of technicolor fields of flora like that movie where Robin Williams wanders around the afterlife. And just as surely, it’s caused you to feel the first twinges of FOMO you’ve experienced in over a year. The Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival, held 30 minutes outside Portland in Woodburn, is one of those quaint regional traditions that’s grown in popularity every year social media has been around, which means the weekend cro
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“Jonny Sun is back with a collection of essays and other writings in his unique, funny, and heartfelt style. The wonderfully original author of
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Goodbye, Again (Harper Perennial), a collection of touching and hilarious personal essays, stories, poems accompanied by his trademark illustrations covering topics such as mental health, happiness, and what it means to belong. The pieces range from long meditations on topics like loneliness and being an outsider, to short humor pieces, conversations, and memorable one-liners. Jonny’s honest writings about his struggles with feeling productive, as well as his difficulties with anxiety and depression, will connect deeply with his fans, as well as anyone attempting to create in our chaotic world. It also features a recipe for scrambled eggs that might make you cry. Sun will be joined in conversation by Samantha Irby, author of
Salem is a garden paradise in spring: 13 gardens you can visit this season
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Tulips bloom outside the Bush House at Bush s Pasture Park in Salem. Jamie Hale/The Oregonian
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Exploring the Salem area in spring feels a little like landing in Oz.
The city comes alive with color in the springtime, as flowers pop up in public parks, formal gardens, and at nurseries and farms around the area. It’s enough to make Salem not only Oregon’s state capital, but the garden capital of Oregon as well.
Expand your vision from Salem proper to include the nearby towns of Silverton, Monmouth, Brooks and Dallas, and you have a veritable Garden of Eden at the heart of the Willamette Valley. What is it about the area that’s so good for gardens?
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