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The Book John Steinbeck Almost Wrote About the Pacific Northwest

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Reprinted from Post Alley, used by permission. The marine biologist, philosopher, and pioneer ecologist Ed Ricketts is well-known to fans of John Steinbeck as the...

Beautiful Banded Brant

River Otters

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So Long, Pygmy Kayaks

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More than three decades ago, when guys like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were building technology companies that would change the world, another Ivy...

On the Water - On the Hard

Fogknife

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One cold February day eons ago I walked into Brion Toss’s rigging shop in Port Townsend. As usual, he was in a jovial mood...

Sky-Blue

Living by the Wind

Birds

Our Pescatarian Birds – Part 2

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Part 1 of this two-part series included gulls, crows, a merganser, a tern, an auklet, and a guillemot with their fish. Now we’ll take...

Our Pescatarian Birds Part 1

Our Local Baby Birds

Musings & Memoirs

Cherishing Our Actual Lives Beneath the Clouds

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I lived most of my life in the Southwest, far from the upper left-hand corner of this country.  How did I encounter Mike O’Connor...

Learning to Lie

A Christmas Eve Story

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The Book John Steinbeck Almost Wrote About the Pacific Northwest

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Reprinted from Post Alley, used by permission. The marine biologist, philosopher, and pioneer ecologist Ed Ricketts is well-known to fans of John Steinbeck as the...

50 Years of Sawdust and Varnish

Tamanowas Rock

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Critters

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Photography by Joel Rogers. Click on any image to go full screen.

Fall Color

Spiders are Special

Port Townsend Pets

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Winterspring

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When television first came to our neighborhood in the early 50’s there was a puppet on the Howdy Doody Show whose name was Princess...

Spider Sticks

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The Insights of Tralfamadorians and Quakers

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Port Townsend author JoAnne Tompkins's novel What Comes After was the winner of the 2022 Dayton Literary Peace Prize runner up in fiction award...

Learning to Lie

Sky-Blue

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Pandemic Predictions

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More than a year and a half into the pandemic, the transition back to normalcy has been tragically upended by a combination of the...

Love in the Time of Covid

The Back of the Herd