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peripherie — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 17:23:06 +0000

Old and even older pilings, Highway 112, March 2012

Wedded plants

peripherie — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 20:17:35 +0000

chair/curiosity plant, chair/blue majesty, April 2012

Mornings still in the high 20s this week; even the daffodils haven’t come up yet so unable to sate my craving for blossoms I took these cactus pictures.

These plants are guardedly ancient- the Cereus peruvianus monstrose dates to my wife’s early childhood, and the Pilosocereus pachycladus shares our wedding anniversary. Old, wooden and seasonally disinclined, still the pairing has a connection with spring the belies the sexless, leathery and sullenly spiny carcasses of the plants. Not a flattering association by any means, but a modest nostalgic one in the traditions of any devoted pairing growing from a spot on a mutual calendar. Brute perennial inevitability. No romantic flourishes or even obvious compatibility except the proximity to its own consoling number. Near, rather than together. Dates, rather than weather.

peripherie — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 20:51:45 +0000

Backdoor, Battery 131, March 2012

peripherie — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:15:32 +0000

Acute and obtuse walls, Fort Casey, March 2012

peripherie — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:06:49 +0000

Harbor Bluffs, Port Angeles, March 2012

peripherie — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 18:05:50 +0000

Dereliction, Fort Worden, March 2012

peripherie — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 18:48:57 +0000

Battery Valleau, Fort Casey, March 2012

peripherie — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 16:45:25 +0000

Switchboard Bunker, Camp Casey, March 2012

peripherie — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:32:33 +0000

Snow melt, Lake Crescent, January 2012

peripherie — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:35:56 +0000