Rusty Ring

(If you've been there, you know.)

(Here's another icon of North Pacific Coast spring: Cornus nuttallii , or Pacific dogwood. Along with trillium , which blows before th...

(Encountered this remarkably serviceable dinghy moored to the seawall back under the trees. Sort of boat I grew up in, before about t...

(This is a concretion I found on the beach after a storm. It's a sort of sedimentary rock that solidifies around a piece of metal on ...

( Trillium ovatum . Jungle flower; iconic herald of North Coast spring.)

(Photo taken during my outbacking trek through the Columbia Basin last summer. Mt. Rainier in the distance. Open link in a new tab to se...

( Another in my unintended series on endangered Old Settler houses in the district where I grew up. I've loved this one since I fi...

( Garlands of old man's beard [Usnea longissima], catching the winter sun at this specific moment of day.)

(No stronger proof of disuse in an old barn than a rotten hay hoist. Because this tackle can easily kill people if it fails, farmers ten...

(Another shot from my trek through Eastern Washington last summer.)

( Boletus edulis. Part of a generous outbreak that burst up not far from my house during the record rains of last month. Some of them w...

(Another electrical artefact from an old shed that's figured in these pages before . This time it's a full grown tree used as a p...

( Stryx varia .)

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Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

(A point I've made before .) Appearing also on My Corner of the World .