Bella Coola, the long view

Bella Coola, named for a Native tribe of Canada, was one of the stars of the Gravenstein Apple Fair. She lives on a farm in Sebastopol.

When someone asked for a word to describe her, I suggested “regal.”

“It’s like she thinks she is better than everyone around,” a woman responded, and so I changed my suggestion to “queenly,” the same thing, really, but with a slightly different emphasis.

She is indeed regal, but also queenly, like, say, Eustachia Vye of Thomas Hardy’s Return of the Native.