Flowers for The Dalles, OR

The Dalles is where the green, dripping western Gorge finally gives way to sun and basalt — a river town pinned between the Columbia and the cherry benches climbing south toward Mount Hood. Its flower work reflects that split geography. Downtown along Third Street and up the historic blocks toward Fort Dalles, orders are quick anniversary bouquets, birthday deliveries, and get-well baskets bound for Mid-Columbia Medical Center on East 19th. Out on the benches the addresses stretch — orchard homes past the cherry rows on Chenoweth and Skyline, then the wheat-country runs down US-197 to Dufur and Maupin. The dam and the Google campus sit downstream on the river; the wind that made this stretch a windsurfing mecca rakes the same roads a delivery driver takes.

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