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The ancient towns of Dali and Lijiang, the glacier surrounded by green hills on Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, the markets with their sweet, sweet peaches all were as wondrous as she had promised.
WSJ: Tess Gerritsen on Taking Her Mother's Ashes to China | Traveler's Tale
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Now, at thirty, I'd found all I needed in the sweet, real world of Cedar Valley, where I lived-the mountain peaks forming a torn-edged horizon, like a castle's crenellated walls, protecting me within a bowl of neatly laid out streets lined with well-established homes and mature trees.
NPR: Excerpt: 'Between the Tides'
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On Friday up to 300 people are expected to start replanting in the most severely damaged area of Crowthorne Forest with species including sweet chestnuts, sequoia, Douglas firs and mountain pines.
BBC: Burnt forest rises from the ashes