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Technicolor blue skies, sturdy stands of Ponderosa Pine, and the musical babbling of a glacier-fed creek suggest an idyllic and balanced existence. The Central Oregon town of Sisters has a front-row seat to all of that, plus several majestic peaks — Broken Top, Mt. Washington and the Three Sisters — making life there akin to living in a postcard. Or so it may seem.
 
When I arrived for a month-long residency last August at the Pine Meadow Ranch and Center for Art & Agriculture just outside of Sisters, I wasn’t greeted by the trope of a postcard-perfect Western landscape, but rather by acrid air and smoke-draped mountains — a study in desaturated hues and a reminder of the increasing impact of climate change on the land and us.