My husband, Weldon, and I, now in our early 80s, moved into what would become our dream home twenty-six years ago—a downtown Seattle condominium with large windows facing bustling Elliott Bay. At any one time we can look out those …
The house finches began singing at first light. Their dawn chorus woke Rosemary Monarch. Her downtown Seattle condominium complex surrounded an extensive courtyard filled with verdant plants and mature trees that attracted finches and flickers, robins and wrens. One finch, brown with …