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There’s nothing more magnetic than someone who loves something so much that they transform before your eyes when they talk about it. The words glow in their mouth like a wand that’s chosen its wizard. I feel grateful when I meet these people for taking the time to appreciate something about the universe that I or any other beholder might have overlooked.  This is what it’s like talking to Dave Hayes, The Weather Nut. Voted “Best Local Meteorologist” for ten years straight in the Valley Advocate, Hayes (who does not have a meteorology degree) is clearly doing something magnetic. Hayes’…

Photography by Quentin Bacon When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d, And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night, I mourn’d, and yet shall mourn…