Category Archives: Humptulips County

It’s Friday and our “Spring” has morphed into “Summer.” We have the same cold and rainy weather in Humptulips County that we’ve had all Spring, but now we call it “Summer” due to the rotation and tilt of the earth. … Continue reading →

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose My youth is bent by the same wintry … Continue reading →

While it is New Year’s morning for everyone else, for my wife, Helen, and me it is also our anniversary. And, not just any anniversary, but our thirtieth. As usual, we face New Years day and our anniversary here on … Continue reading →

One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether … Continue reading →

It turned away from the blithe country And down the other air and the blue altered sky Streamed again a wonder of summer With apples Pears and red currants And I saw in the turning so clearly a child’s Forgotten … Continue reading →

I took this week off for a variety of reasons: the Summer is ending and I wanted to catch what’s left; many of my clients take the month off; and the Humptulips County Fair begins this week. For my wife … Continue reading →

“Daylight… in my mind, the night faded. It was daytime and the neighbourhood was busy. Miss Stephanie Crawford crossed the street to tell the latest to Miss Rachel. Miss Maudie bent over her azaleas. It was summertime, and two children … Continue reading →

The Pacific chorus frog, Pseudacris regilla, is hereby designated as the official amphibian of the state of Washington. Revised Code of Washington, Section 1.20.150 In my small corner of Humptulips County, the second week of February always marks the annual … Continue reading →

It’s all I have to bring today – This, and my heart beside – This, and my heart, and all the fields – And all the meadows wide – Be sure you count should I forget Some one the sum could … Continue reading →

“Pooka. From old Celtic mythology. A fairy spirit in animal form. Always very large. The pooka appears here and there, now and then, to this one and that one at his own caprice. A wise but mischievous creature. Very fond … Continue reading →