Welcome to The Rainshadow Journal!
Rainshadow Journal is a website of news, commentary and photography produced by a collective of retired journalists and co-conspirators, most of us in Port...
Goodbye 2022- A Year on Rainshadow
As we close out 2022, I want to take a moment to recap and say thanks to all of our contributors and readers. We...
Closer to South
By Bob Francis (map looking due north of Port Townsendby Google Earth)
I moved, he moved. I stopped, he stopped, and his motorcycle fell...
Politically (in)correct attacks.
The latest insanity over political correctness has come from an unlikely source, Ukrainian Americans who one would assume, consider themselves supporters of Democracy and...
Diana Talley – Shavings in my brassiere #2
ABSENTIA
I left something behind at a fancy hotel... in absentia.
Many years ago an old girlfriend was having a passionate, extremely private affair with a...
Port Gamble: The Future of the Past
Port Gamble, the picturesque mill town and popular stopover en route to Seattle is about to experience something it hasn’t in decades: Growth.
And lots...
Creds
Credentials are the way we acquire money, jobs and status in our world. But the sordid tales of now Congressman George Santos and Bernie...
Roundabout
By Wanda Fuca
Roundabout is our inaugural items column, an ongoing collection of local observations and anecdotes that seem worth sharing. The idea is to...
How to Speak Boat: Lessons for Tourists
Dear Visitor,
Welcome to Port Townsend, where the men are vigorous, the women are smart as hell, and the ferries land hard. The sea runs...
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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...
Insects on the Peninsula: Part 3
Damselflies, Dragonflies, Beetles and Grasshoppers
In this final photo essay about local insects, we’ll look at Damselflies, Dragonflies, Beetles, and Grasshoppers.
Years ago, as a beginning...
Insectivore Birds Part 1
I love the diversity of Pacific Northwest birds and insects. This is a two-part photo essay about both— Insectivore Birds. (Of course, the lovely...
Getting a Little Squirrely
Squirrels are fascinating, and we have 25 species of the Squirrel Family in our region, according to David Moskowitz’s Wildlife of the Pacific Northwest....
Infinite Tenderness – Mark Clemens
Rainshadow is proud to present an excerpt from Infinite Tenderness by Port Townsend based Mark Clemens, a novel he wrote that drew on his...
