JANUARY
1/1/21 
1/2/21 
1/3/21 
1/4/21 
1/5/21 
1/6/21 
1/7/21 
1/8/21 
1/9/21 
1/10/21 
1/11/32 
January 12, Harvey and TV 
January 13, Okra 
January 14, sunrise 
January 15, fog 
January 16 Grilling 
January 17 Summon the Crow Army 
January 18 More fog 
January 19 Sunset 
January 20 Sunrise 
January 21 Walk 
January 22 Camping 
January 23 Cape Disappointment 
January 24 Rainy walk at the middle school 
January 25 impromptu collaborative stuffed peppers and rice 
January 26 cold night Riverwalk with loaner phone 
January 27 work from home 
January 28 neighborhood sunset 
January 29 neighborhood deer 
January 30 back to the rainy beach 
January 31 my messy studio / laundry room / box room / plant room / mud room
FEBRUARY
February 1 work selfie 
February 2 dog walk on the Warrenton dike trail 
February 3, coworkers 
February 4, doggie in the window downtown 
February 5, signs of spring 
February 6, bowpicker for lunch 
February 7 beach walk 
February 8 downtown 
February 9 view from the hill 
February 10 beach 
February 11 my neighborhood 
February 12 ice day 
February 13 at the edge of the river 
February 14 horrible day of the rat 
February 15 rocks from the deep sea 
February 16 tree reflected 
February 17 the city across the water 
February 18 Perdita behind the knitting 
February 19 a long stressful work day so here’s Harvey destroying his toys 
February 20 a sunny Saturday morning at the beach ahhh 
February 21 cool gray fog and waves where the river meets the sea 
February 22 doctor’s appointment 
February 23 stormy over the dike trail 
February 24 quick lunchtime walk by the river 
February 25 neighborhood reflections 
February 26 fire alarm at work 
February 27 Saturday is beach morning day ahhhhhhh 
February 28, an eagle overhead. no, like extremely overhead.
That was February. Every picture on here except the last one was taken with the loaner phone, an HTC Bolt. It sucked as a phone, I had to tweak the hell out of the photos but actually, let’s face it: even the shittiest contemporary phone camera is so much better than the early digital cameras that there’s no real comparison. Anyway I kind of like some of these. February! It rained a lot. My son went back to NC. The pandemic continues. Work and dogs and dogs and work, an unpleasant rat interlude (I pissed off the vermin goddess a long long time ago and she will just never relent) and that’s about it for February 2021.
MARCH
Monday March 1 blurry early morning deer 
Tuesday March 2 bufflehead in flight 
Wednesday March 3 sunrise over astoria 
Thursday March 4 deer on the way to work 
Friday March 5 there’s a deer down there 
Saturday March 6 Elk 
Sunday March 7 hailstorm! 
Monday March 8 frosty morning marsh 
Tuesday March 9 neighborhood early light 
Wednesday March 10 sunrise Youngs Bay 
Thursday March 11 golden hour view from Patriot Hall 
Friday March 12 sunrise walk 
Saturday March 13 late afternoon walk to Youngs Bay 
Sunday March 14 parasailors 
Monday March 15 pre surgery Covid test window view 
Tuesday March 16 light and shadow 
Wednesday March 17 colonoscopy prep UGH 
Thursday March 18 hospital waiting room is extremely Oregon 
Friday March 19 giant driftwood beach morning 
Saturday March 20 over the river 
Sunday March 21 wide sweep of sky and water 
Monday, March 22 ship coming in, there’s a murmuration in there too 
Tuesday March 23, 8 inches of dead fish on the beach. Look at those teeth! The gulls were having a good evening. 
Wednesday March 24 snoozles and they miss the bonanza going on outside 
Thursday March 25 walking back from the mechanics, a rainbow 
Friday March 26 a visit to the Astoria Coop is not complete without a dog walk around the mill poind 
Saturday March 27 en route to a friend’s houe, these deer caused a small traffic jam 
Sunday, March 28 just the beach 
Monday March 29 separate dog walks 
Tuesday March 30 I found a skelketon! 
Wednesday March 31 Okra waits impatiently for me to change the sheets
And that was March. I finally got a phone so almost all if not all of these are phone pictures. It looks like I get out more than I do from these – I work all day! I never really go anywhere! – but I do walk the dogs at least twice a day and that’s prime photo time. In March I had a colonoscopy, worked, walked the dogs and one day I went over the river to Cape Disappointment and on the way home I bought a crab in Ilwaco and had it for dinner. Thrill a minute around here, let me tell you.
APRIL
Thursday April 1, I got my first Moderna Covid vaccine shot! Right in the heron. 
Friday April 2 roots in the woods 
Saturday April 3 low tide reveals the anthropocene 
Sunday April 4 snoozing elk at Fort Stephens 
Monday April 5 a coworker 
Tuesday April 6 early morning eagles 
Wednesday April 7 my sweet potato vine is going nuts 
Thursday April 8 an outing to Clatsop Spit / Trestle Bay after work 
Friday April 9 these daffodils have been in bloom for almost a month 
Saturday April 10 Harvey at the beach 
Sunday April 11 very clean birb 
Monday April 12 walk cancelled due to elk snoozles 
Tuesday April 13 sudden neighborhood walk view 
Wednesday April 14 sunrise 
Thursday April 15 the view on just a regular ordinary errand 
Friday April 16 sunrise at the beach 
Saturday April 17 Seaside plant shopping 
Sunday April 18 in the richest country in the world. . . 
Monday April 19 morning visitors 
Tuesday April 20 early morning walks on the dike trail are a joy 
Wednesday April 21 evening walks on the other dike trail are pretty good too 
Thursday April 22 helicopters over the dunes 
Friday April 23 no telling what you’ll find in college storage 
Saturday April 24 buying Astoria Clownbread 
Sunday April 25 these blurry dogs just had a DQ pupcone 
Monday April 26 a little woods hiking after work 
Tuesday April 27 sunrise at the rec center 
wednesday April 28 early walk selfie with amazing hair 
Thursday April 29 second shot! It is done! 
Friday April 30 perdita in the sidewalk blossoms
April: the month of vaccination! It started and ended with a shot and in two weeks I will be immune to Covid, which is wonderful and amazing. In other April news we had clouds and deer, eagles and dogs, trees and beaches. It is not really possible to have a boring life in a place as beautiful as this one.
MAY
Saturday May 1 I fought off the 2nd shot side effects just long enough for a beach walk in the morning 
Sunday May 2 ferns unfurling with Perdita looking on 
Monday May 3 the odd but beautiful lily type plants in the front yard 
Tuesday May 4, my birthday and I sat on the dunes for a while without the dogs 
Wednesday May 5 suddenly sick again, very strange, something triggered a migraine, day in bed. 
Thursday May 6 morning walk on the other dike 
Friday May 7 some early morning neighbors 
Saturday May 8 Harvey likes the weekends and so do I 
Sunday May 9 a long walk south from the wreck 
Monday May 10 the old ship resting place 
Tuesday May 11 spectacular morning at the rec center 
Wednesday May 12 banana slug 
Thursday May 13 view from WineKraft omg I went for drinks with a work friend 
Friday May 14 after work beach visit 
Saturday May 15 a friend outside Coffeegirl 
Sunday May 16 Sunday Market 
Monday May 17 Perdita at the demonstration forest 
Tuesday May 18 paragliders at the beach 
Wednesday May 19 two trees two dogs 
Thursday May 20 geese in the morning 
Friday May 21 the brain people came to campus 
Saturday May 22 fisheye elk through the truck window 
Sunday May 23 Perdita at the beach 
Monday May 24 kelp and algae and driftwood 
Tuesday May 25 the patio garden is coming along 
Wednesday May 26 fisheye view from Patriot Hall 
Thursday May 27 dead sealion in the distance 
Friday May 28 this is my house 
Saturday May 29 the kitchen window 
Sunday May 30 Harvey and Perdita the album cover 
Monday May 31 my friends’ duck house
May! It was fisheye month and that was great for hmmm the first three weeks. 😀 Then it got old. People say the fisheye is gimmicky and I say so what? Fuck off. I like gimmicky. I like distortions and oddities. I also like the lensbaby fisheye on my Canon because it is purely manual and I have to think about it. Naturally I hate it for the same reason. Anyway, of the photos above, the Lensbaby on the Canon are the ones with a ring around the image. The ones that take up the whole square were taken with the Cameringo app – a fun $2 app I recommend – on a Samsung Galaxy S9.
JUNE
Tuesday June 1 a crow at work 
Wednesday June 2 perfect reflections 
Thursday June 3 a visitor gets a drink 
Friday June 4 a coworker takes a stroll 
Saturday June 5 crab pots at the industrial part of the docks 
Sunday June 6 made strawberry jam! 
Monday June 7 that’s actually a very sad looking eagle, I thought it was a vulture! 
Tuesday June 8 ducklings! 
Wednesday June 9 Harvey at the beach at sunrise 
Thursday June 10 dinner at La Cabana de Raya 
Friday June 11 Pride with these lovely ladies 
Saturday June 12 awesome belated birthday gift from son 
Sunday June 13 rainy work meeting at Coffee Girl 
Monday June 14 riverwalk 
Tuesday June 15 ducks on the dyke at dawn 
Wednesday June 16 commencement rehearsal 
Thursday June 17 parasailors at the beach 
Friday June 18 commencement – a long work day 
Saturday June 19 darling Perdita at the beach 
Sunday June 20 ducks in a bathtub at my friends’ house 
Monday June 21 sand crab monster 
Tuesday June 22 neighborhood deer 
Wednesday June 23 I made a cherry pie! 
Thursday June 24 Perdita really likes the dyke hike 
Friday June 25 foggy morning low tide rec center 
Saturday June 26 the heat dome begins and a killdeer is nesting in the vacant lot next to the Coop 
Sunday June 27 the hellish hellish heat dome at the beach. 
Monday June 28 by evening blessedly back to our regularly scheduled weather 
Tuesday June 29 elk in the dunes!! 
Wednesday June 30 just the kitchen window
And that was June. Took me a month to finish it, since I went to Asheville shortly thereafter, so honestly I don’t remember much about June. It was really busy at work, there was the truly horrible heat dome and, um, I think that was pretty much all that happened in June.
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