This is Hudson Gardner. Welcome to Walk Around.

Right now I am sitting in the shade. It's really hot today. So I’m sitting next to a guest house I'm living in, looking out across an unmowed, untended field. It's kind of like a little pasture. This is actually a place I've been coming since I was four or five years old. The first time I came here, I can't even remember. But it's my aunt's house.And it's such a beautiful place. It's one of the only places that has stayed the same for my whole life in terms of something that I returned to, which is really neat and rare for me.

I've been walking around a lot recently. Surveying for what some people call invasive weeds, walking the prairies in northeastern Oregon....

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