Have you heard the term ‘escape velocity’? It’s about 59 miles per hour. Or less, as Janet chugged up and over the Cascade Mountains yesterday. Everything I thought I might…

Or almost. The vivid and smoke-free skies of yore, yes, but now you can’t swim in Odell Lake, for heaven’s sake. And it had taken me some resolve to decide…

It seems there were no architects before the 18th century. That isn’t quite true, but in going about France and Switzerland looking at buildings, it is starting in the 1700s…