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Port Townsend’s Red-footed Booby: A messenger from the future
A little after noon on July 31, 2024, Colleen Farrell, biologist aboard a Puget Sound Express vessel, identified a Red-footed Booby sitting on a...
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The lost commencement address by Tom Robbins
Updating this to honor the life and times of Tom Robbins, who walked on today. He lived a remarkable life.This post originally appeared here...
On the Water - On the Hard
Maritime Voices: New podcast offers local maritime stories
A new local podcast has started by Jim Heumann. We asked Jim to give us an overview of the podcast and we’ll post notifications...
Birds
Port Townsend’s Red-footed Booby: A messenger from the future
A little after noon on July 31, 2024, Colleen Farrell, biologist aboard a Puget Sound Express vessel, identified a Red-footed Booby sitting on a...
Musings & Memoirs
To Live a Good Life
A young friend of mine died — unexpectedly last week. Way too early. Decades too early. Jesús died in his sleep, in his bed,...
History
Father’s Day: Remembering Leonard Miner’s War
This edition of Rainshadow Journal is sampled from “Leonard Miner’s War,” photos and writings collected and edited by Miner’s son and Port Townsend resident,...
Art & Music
Summer Surprises
The joys of summer fade with the approach of the autumn equinox. Summer is a time to revel in unexpected plants and animals on...
Home & Garden
Winterspring
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...
Writing
The Mis- & Un-Adventures of my So-Called Adventurous Life
Staying calm around bears & capsizing kayaks near Port Nellie Juan
We were anchored in a long narrow inlet yesterday.
The morning was cloudy and wet,...
COVID
Pandemic Predictions
More than a year and a half into the pandemic, the transition back to normalcy has been tragically upended by a combination of the...
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