Rusty Ring

(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...

(This ancient outbuilding, one of a few derelict structures still surviving from what was a working dairy farm near my home when...

(Found this all-steel imperial quart motor oil can on a recent walk along a former logging road – now in a protected natural area. Judging...

(My thirty-year-old OHR high-frequency CW [Morse code] transceiver, set up at the home of friends. My friends are biologists, and their...

Insight from a sangha-mate on Mastodon (appropriately enough): One of the most important ideas to sit with – amid the convulsion ...

(The city developed a small but interesting walking park here a few years ago, on utilities land it's owned for many decades. ...

(Because the North Coast has only been densely populated for the past two centuries, we have nothing like the glorious mudlarking t...

(This is a pile of old railway iron, found in the ground by a bike trail maintenance crew. The trail was built on the right-of-...

(Found this giant old cedar stump on the beach some time ago. The hole has been a matter of conjecture ever since. It's clearly...

(On this site stood one of the first homesteads in the neck of Thurston County, Washington, where I grew up. During the Blockhouse War...

What I most ached for on the mountain was a musical instrument . They're like languages, each complete and distinct and irreplaceab...

(H.J. Cameron here served in Company C of the 2nd Washington Territory Volunteers, a settlers' militia of the 1850s Blockhouse War...

(From my mother's attic. It could still come in handy some day.)

(This is the imprint of an ancient scallop shell, pressed flat underground over several million years. This summer it was stripped out ...

(Far left, holding his horse.)