Foggy sunrise

Aug. 14, 2016.

The old saying is that in McCleary you hear either the freeway or the door plant. But on early Sunday mornings the town can be magically quiet. Photo taken from Rabbit Hill.

The Rabbit of Legend

Aug. 14, 2016. There is a rabbit I have seen more than once near the top of Rabbit Hill that is enormous. About sunrise this morning it politely posed for me at Evergreen Place as I walked by.

There are rabbits all over town these days, more than I ever seen in the past, but this one is the Godzilla of the bunch. I have to wonder whatever happened to all those coyotes we used to hear and occasionally see?


Fill in the image

Oct. 3, 2010

Pothole art

Oct. 2, 2011

Tim Bear

Oct. 2, 2011

He's beautiful, even with the flaws

Oct. 2, 2011

The bear on top of City Hall was created out of a chunk of cedar by a chainsaw carver from Westport, I believe, in the early 1960s. The sculpture was dubbed "Tim Bear" or "Timbear" and has served as something of an official symbol of the City ever since.

An up close examination of the sculpture reveals enormous cracks in the wood and it is often covered with a thin patina of algae. I'm sure the piece requires frequent maintenance to keep it together, which does indeed reflect the normal state of running a municipality. We all have to work as partners to make our city work, in spite of the cracks our differences create. As for the algae metaphor, well, that's why we oldtimers are known as "Mossbacks."   

So the flawed, mossy bear is ever vigilant, surveying his domain.

Empty sign

Oct. 2, 2011