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It’s never too late for outdoor education

Getting a close-up look at the outdoors doesn’t have to be limited to getting one’s toes and hands muddy, up to your ankles and wrists in who knows what. That’s part of it, of course, but students of all ages can expand their knowledge by patient observation and intent listening; if you share that view, then isn’t the entire outdoors a classroom? The events below provide a wide variety of ways in which knowledge can be gain:

• A summer art class helps kids develop essential skills

• These gloves can become mittens

• Snowberry offers beauty year-round

• Tacoma author weaves complex tale of science, relationships

• Bellingham artist’s bust of renowned music maestro finds place in Kennedy Center

• Tail feathers key to identifying long-tail duck

• New book captures Washington’s history, beauty through ‘repeat photography’

• Winter brings short-eared owls to county

• Private donations sought for new arts district

• Meg Tilly draws on childhood for latest novel ‘Porcupine’

• In the garden: Transplant bulbs into garden

• Address garden’s bare spots

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