LOVE

Feb. 10, 2018

Rain Country Valentine display. McCleary City Hall and the new clinic are in the background

Floating Valentines

Feb. 4, 2018
Gordon's

Seattle Seahawks

Jan. 17, 2014. Gordon's joins Seahawks fever as the Super Bowl approaches. Note the football helmet shaped helium balloons competing with Valentine balloons in the background. The town erupted with fireworks when the Seahawks beat Denver that year.

A heart in the dumpster

Found in a dumpster bin, Rainbow Park, after the heat of St. Valentine's Day is over and the cool winter air reminds us that fondness makes the head grow absent. Feb. 20, 2012

Saint Valentine's Day on First Street

 

Feb. 14, 2015.

This wetland was once home to the last old growth tree left standing in McCleary. When it was finally cut down in the 1930s, the tree was dubbed "Shakespeare" since the rings indicated it dated back to ca. 1600.

The northern portion of First St., from Mommsen to Beck, once served as most of the eastern border of Henry McCleary's lumber mill.

So far as I know, the first three Euro-settlers in what is now McCleary were all foreign born. The Becks, who lived where the McCleary Hotel now stands, were Danish. The Mommsens, who lived at the end of the road that bears their name, were German. Jake Anderson, was a surly Norwegian bachelor who lived at the top of the T at present 5th and Oak.

Cupid's arrow

Rain Country window decoration for Saint Valentines Day, Jan. 14, 2012