McCleary Musings

Gas pipeline wooden log arch

Mar. 20, 2017. A new archway has appeared over the sign indicating where the natural gas pipeline enters city limits, 6th and Hemlock.

Morning sky, southeast from 2nd St. hill

Feb. 12, 2017

New Year's Day at Beerbower Park

Jan. 1, 2017

A wrong turn

Dec. 2, 2016. Tracks left by a vehicle occupying two fugitives attempting to elude law enforcement. The chase ended in the swamp next to Rainbow Park.

Preparing the Christmas lights for the park

Nov. 28, 2016

Dreamer, Charlie, Buster, and Hettie

May 26, 2008.

A rather disturbing find in the parking lot

May 16, 2012. Rainbow Park

That sinking feeling while mowing a big green sponge

Nov. 10, 2016. Beerbower Park

McCleary Skate Park Rules and Regulations

Oct. 30, 2016. The City crew found a creative use for the defunct skate park sign. 9th and Simpson

Stonehenge-- the McCleary version

Oct. 28, 2016. Beerbower Park, next to Rainbow Park. The Rainbow residents used to have a garden spot in this area in the late 20th century. This could be considered an extension of the street known as "Veterans Way." First Street creates the horizon line in the background.

Late October view from Rabbit Hill

Oct. 28, 2016.

In the city pole yard

Oct. 28, 2016. Where the Float Barn used to be. Probably a sad story behind this wreckage.

Peanut butter, ketchup, mustard, Marmite on a hamburger bun

Apr. 20, 2012. Culinary anarchy

Layers

Apr. 20, 2011. By the Post Office, if I recollect

Dental ceiling

Apr. 19, 2012.

Hospital bed curtain

Apt. 18, 2011. Mark E. Reed Memorial Hospital

Wall detail

Apr. 18, 2011. Mark E. Reed Memorial Hospital patient room

Plastic and organic pumpkins prepare for Halloween!

Oct. 17, 2016. Gordon's

Vine maple in alder

Oct. 16, 2016. Rabbit Hill, Evergreen Pl.

Storm flotsam

Oct. 16, 2016. Sidewalk on Simpson Ave.

McCleary Cemetery

Oct. 12, 2016.

This cemetery was started around 1911. Shortly after it began, the local Knights of Pythias took charge of it. In May, 1945 the lodge handed over the property to the McCleary municipal government.

A 1994 survey and indexing project established that over 20 unmarked and unrecorded graves exist, thanks in part to the soundings performed earlier by Herbert "Mac" McCready.