I'd donned my mother's white eyelet lace gown from the cedar closet downstairs, the gown Gran had hand-embroidered special for her honeymoon.

NPR: Excerpt: 'The Garden Angel'

Houman would introduce Willis to masters of other crafts, including zellige (glazed tile mosaic), gebs (carved and incised white plaster) and mashrabiya (intricately carved cedar for pierced screens).

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Notice the luminescent yellow tip at the end of the cedar waxwing's tail, the brilliant white speckles on the starling's back and chest.

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Shortly after imparting this significant fact, he drives us on a white-knuckle ride up narrow switchbacks to the top of 1, 000ft-high Cedar Mesa.

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