The Good, the Bad, and the Unemployed

Three years ago this month I was unsuccessfully job hunting in Portland (put up at the McMenamin's Crystal Hotel). Now I'm retired in Eugene having purchased a small woodsy condo. Changing times.

2018: Dribs and Drabstracts

End of the year once more, and here are a few odd ones out from 2018.

Parallelogram, Cannon Beach OR

Five Logs, Christiansen Nursery, Mt. Vernon WA

Loading Dock, Cottage Grove OR

Unilluminated, Cottage Grove

Final Frontier, Eugene OR

What Makes It Tick, LaConner WA

Lines, Pike Place Market, Seattle WA

Diptych, Bellevue WA

Three Nines, Renton WA

Nucleus, Rockaway OR

Burning of the Houses of Parliament, Juan Ferry, WA

Rorshach, Seaside OR

Landscape with Truck, Seattle WA

Veiled, Sky Nursery, Lynnwood WA

Evolution, Tacoma WA

To the Bone, Tacoma Maritime Museum, WA

Lan Su Garden, Portland OR

Black Velvet

2017 retrospect

Here are a few unpublished pieces from the past year...

Poison: January, Portland OR

Cold: February: Portland OR

Resort: March: Winlock WA

Last ice: April: Bellevue WA

Spit: June: Whiskey Creek WA

Pumpless: July:  Pe Ell WA

Eclipse shadows: August: Bellevue WA

Dairy: September: Skagit Valley WA

Pond: October: Portland OR

Crashpad: November: Salton Sea CA

Patchwork: December: Chehalis WA

Celine and Suboxone

Came upon this provocative Portland still life with a dismembered copy of Celine's Castle to Castle and a label from some medicine for opioid addiction.

Down by the riverside

Captured these as we looped down to Oregon at the end of July, weaving along the back highways following the tail end of the Columbia River.

Ilwaco, WA

Not much going on in this old fishing port on at the mouth of the river, but they do make an effort keeping Main Street colorful and "vintage"!

Bar, Scappoose, OR

Rhymes with "papoose."

Auto shop, Scappoose, OR

Scappoose is a surprisingly thriving strip along Highway 6. This building looks like it's been through a few bar fights.

Scappoose, OR

Even the front door is slightly gimpy.

St. Helens, OR

Time remains frozen on the banks of the Columbia. Except they do show 3-D films.

St. Helens, OR

I don't know about Robert Frost, but I do like a good wall.

Westport, OR

Green patch of mystery in another wonky door.

Westport, OR

Westport, OR

Signage galore...keeping the past alive.

St. Johns, Portland OR

A wonderful north-end riverside neighborhood.

St. Johns, Portland OR

A hot morning, good for manly shorts and tank tops.

St. Johns, Portland OR

The Western Well, not to be confused with the Western Wall.

St. Johns, Portland OR

Our family had this car, or "as close as dammit," in the '50s. My father dubbed it "Uncle Wiggily."