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There's a kind of folktale Polish wedding tradition that Seattlest has always thought was cool. It says that when your daughter is born you fire up the still and produce a barrel of vodka which you then bury somewhere on your farm. Twelve years later when that daughter is getting married you dig up the barrel and drink it at the wedding, the vodka having been infused with the flavors, and, more ephemerally, the spirit of the land.

-We felt really bad for that guy who fell down an elevator shaft in Bellevue a while back, and it's not like it's any less tragic now...but he did get the elevator to stop between floors in the first place by jumping up and down in it.

Yesterday the Cascadia Scorecard blog commented on a P-I article from two days ago on the subject of Seattle's troubled urban forests. The article from the Post Intelligencer is quality stuff and you should copy the link for yourself for reading at another time. We know that stuff piles up and you eventually just end up deleting it all because who has time to read that many links, but at least you'll have made an effort. It's about invasive species outcompeting our native floura, a subject also well covered in the David Williams book.

Ah, the glowing ball in the sky! Ah, the streets filled with sweaty, pasty Northwesterners! Summer has come to Seattle and is busily pinkening acres and acres of skin.

There are plenty of options begging for your attention this coming weekend. It might rain, it might not, but honestly could you care less? Seattlest found these little lovelies tucked up in the cliffs on the Palisades/Ranger Creek trail near Mt. Rainier this past weekend. We couldn't appreciate the typical staggering view, hunkered up in the clouds as we were, but lo and behold spring had sprung right in between our toes! Take a look around yourselves this weekend, there's plenty afoot (OK, no more podiatric references):