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Fall City & Preston
Seattle Post-Intelligencer photographer Meryl Schenker captured these glimpses of daily life around the community. Click on a thumbnail to see a page featuring a larger, more detailed version of the image.
Christopher Evans swings his daughter, Katie, 7, around at the Herbfarm in Fall City. The Herbfarm grows and sells herb plants and gives lessons on cooking, growing and crafting with herbs.
Lauren McConkey, 11, Alex Van Oeveren, 12, and Jason Bakken, 10, from left, hang out at Small Frye's, the only fast food place in Fall City.
Fly fisherman Ron Bogden, who retired to Fall City 10 years ago, gets ready to go after steelhead on the Snoqualmie River, which runs through town.
Peggy and Dave Mainer of Seattle come out to whitewater canoe the Raging River, which comes from Tiger Mountain and feeds into the Snoqualmie River.
Linda Rosellini-Burns, a trainer at Burt Carlson's Country Club, gets some love from the labrador puppies she breeds and trains. The business specializes in gun dog training and AKC hunt tests.
Deborah Kropf, the new owner of Stonecroft Gallery, watches while her cat, Sugar Magnolia, climbs alll over Jennifer Reilly, 11, of Ravensdale. Jennifer's mom, Geneva Clough, plans to open an espresso stand next door to the gallery in January.
Cricket, who spends his days wandering around Fall City, was taught to sit at a table by Alan Lind, the new owner of the Last Frontier Saloon. The building has housed a tavern for more than 50 years.
Sandra Barnum, 9, a fourth-grader at Fall City Elementary School, listens to her teacher while Bentley, the class Teddy bear, holds her pencil. The bear is passed around and students take turns taking care of him.
Diehard fisherman Ron Bogden, who retired to Fall City 10 years ago, doesn't let the weather interfere with his fishing for Steelhead on the Snoqualamie River, which runs through town.
Eight-year-old Brownie Noelle Cleaver runs past historic photographs of Fall City at the local Masonic Hall.
A whitewater canoeist takes on the Raging River between Preston and Fall City.
Deborah Kropf, the new owner of Stonecroft Gallery on Preston-Fall City Road Southeast in Preston, stands outside the gallery with one of her best-selling items.
"To Snoqualmies," says tribal co-Chairman Andy de los Angeles, "this is like our Arlington Cemetery."
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