Goodbye to winter Part 1
Port Townsend based Photographer Joel Rogers brings us the best of his images of winter 2021-2022
Insectivore Birds Part 2
Here’s the second of a two-part series on insect-eating birds. In Part 1 I wrote of the importance of insects, and described some of...
Spiders are Special
Spider Web Colors
Lasers? Northern Lights? Woven belts? No, this is a spider web. Lately I’ve been fascinated with one of the eight-legged arachnids—...
Seeing Seaweed
Local photographer and naturalist Wendy Feltham has found the beauty in kelp.
Our Local Baby Birds
Feature photo: Mallard Duckling at Kah Tai Lagoon
All photos by Wendy Feltham.
One of the delights of summer in Port Townsend is noticing baby birds...
A Day on the Dungeness
Rainshadow founding member and professional photographer Joel Rogers spent a recent day on the upper Dungeness River, luckily finding the light "just right". Go...
Fort Worden Creative Alliance: Arts and Culture Come Alive!
As KPTZ, Jefferson County’s community radio station, readies itself to begin broadcasting in its new studios in Building 305, exciting plans are afoot at...
Trending
Vernita
Poetry by local writer and poet Mark Clemons
East of Yakima
Flocks of black birds
Wheel above the freeway,
Scatter over blood brown
Orchards broke by vineyards,
Dust green groves of oak
And hills gone mauve with sunset,
Their shoulders...
Whales, Watching
A little flash fiction for your enjoyment. Flash fiction is a type of prose narrative that takes the form of very brief, self-contained story.
It...
The lost commencement address by Tom Robbins
Photo of Tom Robbins by Dan Wallen. Used with permission of University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections MPH1272
When I was the editor of the...
Our Local Baby Birds
Feature photo: Mallard Duckling at Kah Tai Lagoon
All photos by Wendy Feltham.
One of the delights of summer in Port Townsend is noticing baby birds...
Going nuclear: The high school mascot of mass destruction
Editor's note: With the launch of Oppenheimer, we are once again reminded of the legacy of the atomic bomb, and of the people and...
