Posted in Harbor life, Headlines, Images on 5:16 pm, May 16, 08 | No Comments »
I got the sweet gig of looking for warm weather art yesterday as record temperatures hit 81 degrees in Hoquiam. This is 3-year-old Jaimeson chucking cherry blossoms at me during a flower fight in the park.
I got lucky. I stumbled on this flower fight almost as soon as I started looking for wildart and it [...]
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Posted in Connections, Harbor life, Images on 5:35 pm, May 13, 08 | 3 Comments »
UPDATE: Here’s the story on the fire we ran today.
So I was standing in a parking lot in Hoquiam this afternoon when I got an urgent call from one of my editors.
“We’ve got a fire with visible flames,” he said. An apartment building on the hill in Aberdeen.
“Alright, I’ve got my camera. I can head [...]
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Posted in Harbor life, Headlines, Images on 12:37 pm, May 06, 08 | No Comments »
You know, instead of cleaning my apartment so it would look nice when Liz gets here tonight.
That’s right. Structure fire.
Now I have to finish cleaning tonight. But that’s okay.
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Posted in Harbor life, Images on 9:13 pm, May 02, 08 | No Comments »
Driving by chem-light, originally uploaded by jonesdaily.
My brother cracks a chem-light so we can read.
Approaching Ritzville.
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Posted in Harbor life, Images on 8:20 pm, May 02, 08 | No Comments »
Crossing the Columbia, originally uploaded by jonesdaily.
We have made it to Vantage. I look south and sigh.
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Posted in Images on 6:19 pm, April 30, 08 | No Comments »
Here’s some strange pictures I’ve managed to capture in the past couple days. They don’t have much to do with anything other than the fact I happened to see them in the past 48 hours or so.
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So I got another bird assignment. People love birds around here.
This time I went out to the Sandpiper Trail boardwalk to talk to a biologist who counts the thousands of migratory birds every year for the Grays Harbor Shorebird Festival. Here’s my story for today.
I met refuge biologist Marian Bailey down at the boardwalk, which [...]
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“Fighting solves everything,” was the motto on several shirts at the fight last night. This is former WSU football player Eric Boose beating the crap out of Galen Brown in the heavyweight main event.
There were four professional bouts, including local girl Sky Bell. Here’s the story by Rob Burns. More photos and video from an [...]
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So I just got home from the newsroom after the fights. It was a pretty good time.
I have quite a few photos to post, but that will have to wait until I don’t have to be back at the office in like seven hours. Good night all, and good fighting.
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Boxing at the Beach, originally uploaded by jonesdaily.
Boxers prep for welter weight.
UPDATE: This guy lost. More photos later.
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