McCleary, Washington, glimpses with a cellphone: September 2016

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

C.B. Mann, Apothecary, Olympia, WT

Mar. 31, 2012. Turned up in a plowed field outside of town, on a farm once owned by J.T. Hicklin

Razors and Red Flags

Sept. 28, 2016. An album with McCleary connections. Worth tracking down. Nice to see musicians are still producing work on vinyl-- we old Boomers who still have turntables appreciate it.

Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Second Street disconnect

Sept. 27, 2016. Where 2nd St. dead ends, just out of reach to Mox Chehalis Rd.

In the seamy back alleys of the metropolis

Sept. 26, 2016. Behind Simpson Ave.

Monday, September 26, 2016

Saturday, September 24, 2016

Friday, September 23, 2016

Thursday, September 22, 2016

Time tunnel in McCleary?

Sept. 22, 2016. No. Just the end of the water in the plastic bottle.

Water stain

Mar. 3, 2013. Don't remember the story on this, but I like the lines

Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Sept. 21, 2016. OK, maybe it is just me, but doesn't it seem sort of weird to have a functioning merry-go-round behind the cemetery? Especially since it so isolated from anything else?

I expect Rod Serling, or worse, to step out of the woods any moment.

Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Bacon grease meets dish soap

Feb. 28, 2016. Pretty exciting, eh?

Sunday, September 18, 2016

Night scene, 3rd and Mommsen

Feb. 25, 2014.

Gassing up

Feb. 25, 2014.

Saturday, September 17, 2016

The missing hook

Feb. 16, 2012

Friday, September 16, 2016

Rain Country stars

Sept. 16, 2016

Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Underground pig

Sept. 14, 2016. Half of a walnut that fell last year and shaved by a mower. Whenever I see this I think of a pig buried under the ground, breathing only because the end of the snout is above the surface.

Predawn McCleary

Sept. 14, 2016. Taken from Pine and 6th.

Sunday, September 11, 2016

Square angles

Feb. 10, 2013. Rainbow Park

Friday, September 9, 2016

Carnations

Feb. 8, 2012. Rainbow Park

Red red pear

Feb. 6, 2015.

Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Lamp

Jan. 29, 2014.

In the alley behind the Simpson Ave. mini-mall

Sept. 6, 2016

Jake Anderson's gate

Sept. 5, 2016. A surly Norwegian bachelor named Jake Anderson owned everything west of current day 4th Street before Henry McCleary arrived. Anderson lived at the top of the "T" at 5th and Oak, and was known to use a boat to get around the cedar swamp that is now the filled-in downtown area. The gate to Anderson's digs was here, on this northernmost block of Main St.

Until recently, the spot where Anderson's gate stood was marked on the sidewalk, but a redo of the area wiped that out. This particular side of the block has been home to some iconic McCleary business establishments in the past: Timbear Cafe, Golden Rule Store, the office of Dr. James Arima, Hankinson Jewelry, Porter Hotel, a movie theater, Pastime Pool Hall, McCleary Pharmacy, just to name a few.

Sunday, September 4, 2016

Charlie

Jan. 25, 2013

Happy breakfast at Rain Country

Jan. 25, 2011.

Raindrops on a dusty Buick

Jan. 24, 2013

Hawthorn berries on asphalt

Jan. 24, 2013

Drain on Third

Sept. 4, 2016

Saturday, September 3, 2016

Cleaning off the bacon grease

Jan. 18, 2016

A quiet night

Jan. 18, 2014. Sam's Food Mart. I don't know what the story is on those lights in the sky, so in that sense they truly are unidentified flying objects, or just a lens reflection.