march 30, 2008 6:39pm
I’m sitting in my chair looking some 16.3 miles straight ahead to the top of Saddle Mountain 1 and waiting for some sort of signal that this town is not going to be torn asunder by some fire-n-brimstone conflagration between the nastiest rednecks west of the AppalAchia and the looniest bunch of [...]
I’m a puzzled and perplexed and almost afraid to say -lest saying it makes it happen- that it hasn’t really rain rained in Astoria. We had one hard shower, one instance of a vertigo-inducing gray void of a sky, and some introduction to the claustrophobic1 fog, but it all feels off.
Today is crisp with euphoric [...]
1. Last night the moon was headlamp bright. I haven’t been anywhere else where I could read by moonlight, or be woken up by moonlight, coming in as if it were bright morning.
2. On today’s early morning dog walk, Astoria, across the bay, was snoozing softly, swaddled in a fog blanket and I realized [...]
I have started hiking/”jogging” with the dog.
The long rains have started and so everything outdoors will be cooly wet for months to come. The hikes at night are becoming extremely and intensely small experiences with space, ie the complete and utter lack of the space you can see except for the 5-6 feet ahead [...]
The Fog
1. The day was bright and sunny. This massive fog bank sits on the river completely blocking the view to the other side. Its like a big kid just dropped a mound of white and said, “This side is closed”
2. I look out again over the river and the fog is taking [...]
