Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
How high's the water, Mama?
Sandbag precaution at the banks of Sam's Canal as it flows by Rainbow Park.
Tuesday, January 9, 2018
What is the soda pop's agenda?
This sight greeted me this morning as I went shopping at my favorite grocery store. A lone soda pop atop a vending machine.
How did it get up there? What does it see from that lofty pinnacle? Why is it taunting children who cannot reach it? What cruel game is it playing?
Yes, there are squirrels in McCleary
I have heard it said that there are no squirrels in McCleary. In fact, I would wager there have been more sightings of Sasquatch than squirrels around here during the past decade.
In the last five or six years there is a yard in the southwest part of town that has occasionally harbored a large squirrel. This winter that same yard has not one but two, yes, two squirrels. Here is a photo of one of them-- not exactly a great photo, but hey, this is a flip cellphone. Even so, it is still more detailed and has more clarity than your usual Sasquatch photograph.
The dog in the Library hallway
Looks like this was part of the original 2003 library mural project.
Rolling waves of the Pacific in the sky
Facing west at Gordon's along the Simpson fence.
Thursday, January 4, 2018
Tuesday, January 2, 2018
The Bear in the Library
The bear is wearing some sort of holiday hat at the time this phone photo was taken.
The sign next to the bear, apparently written in 2013, reads thusly:
In 2002, "Blackberry" was taken in a clear cut near the Reed Hill Lookout in the Satsop River drainage in Grays Harbor County by Lanny Duvall of Montesano.
In the past eleven years the Duvall family, Lanny, his wife, Kelli, and their two sons Devyn and Dylann have moved all over the United States. Blackberry has moved with them each time and served as a great conversation piece. For the past five years, the Duvall family has been living overseas in China, leaving Blackberry in storage. Each summer they spend their summer vacations with family in the McCleary area. One of their favorite summer events is the McCleary Bear Festival, which Kelli's sister, Teresa Sanders, acts as a volunteer.
As the Duvall's continue their adventures, they decided, in 2013, to donate their bear to the McCleary Historical Society. On loan to the McCleary Timberland Library, Blackberry has settled into his new home and can be enjoyed by all of McCleary and Grays Harbor families.
The Duvalls are now residents of Amsterdam.
Monday, January 1, 2018
Happy New Year
The bustling live-wire central business district of downtown McCleary on New Year's morning, 2018.
Hmmm, no one seems to be up and around. Gosh, I wonder why?
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