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Book Rated: The Orchard: A Novel, by Peter Heller

2026-06-08 GOODREADS LOG
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> SCANNING: The Orchard: A Novel> AUTHOR_SIG: Peter Heller> SENTIMENT_Q: 80.0% POSITIVE> THEMATIC_VECTORS: NATURE, SURVIVAL, HOW_WRITE_WOMEN???> LEXICAL_DENSITY: 41.99> MEMETIC_HAZARD: MEDIUM
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Book Rated: Children of Ruin, by Adrian Tchaikovsky

2026-06-08 GOODREADS LOG
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> SCANNING: Children of Ruin> AUTHOR_SIG: Adrian Tchaikovsky> SENTIMENT_Q: 60.0% POSITIVE> THEMATIC_VECTORS: SPECIES_UPLIFT, WORLD-BUILDING, ENTOMOLOGY> LEXICAL_DENSITY: 50.38> MEMETIC_HAZARD: LOW
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Home for the next three months! We'd prepared to be purifying our water and solar-ing up our own power, but the cabin actually has solar panels on its roof and disease-free water (albeit from a pump in the back yard). We're responsible for a 10-mile stretch of territory up and down the river.

2026-06-07 PIXELFED RELAY
A truck and small cabin under trees. [Fuji X-T5 / Tamron 18-300]
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Gloomy Science Tourism™? 😅 Off in the distance of the Hanford Site in Eastern Washington sits B Reactor, the first large-scale artificial nuclear reactor (and third-ever). Sadly we couldn't take a tour, as it's closed through 2027.

2026-06-01 PIXELFED RELAY
Amidst gray skies, a boxy structure sits in the distance on yellowish scrubland. [Fuji X-T5 / Tamron 18-300]
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Despite the last couple of pictures, there were in fact *some* trees at John Day Fossil Beds, ha!

2026-05-31 PIXELFED RELAY
A little tree stands on a dry hillside, with irrigated fields below. [Fuji X-T5 / Tamron 18-300]
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A few pictures from John Day Fossil Beds. They had such a cool visitor center! Maybe a lesser-visited site, but definitely worth a stop.

2026-05-30 PIXELFED RELAY
Interesting green rock sits above dry sage. [Fuji X-T5 / Tamron 18-300]
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I don't think I've ever seen such a distinct "half-a-tree".

2026-05-28 PIXELFED RELAY
A tree sits under dramatic skies – one half brushy, one half naked branches. [Fuji X-T5 / Tamron 18-300]
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Dips and rises in Lava Beds National Monument.

2026-05-26 PIXELFED RELAY
A rocky hole in the ground in the foreground, and a cone-shaped hill in the background. [Fuji X-T5 / Tamron 18-300]
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They're on a snooze cruise with the summery sun.

2026-05-23 PIXELFED RELAY
Two tabby cats snoozing on a warm floor. [Fuji X-T5 / Fuji 23 1.4]
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