Mt. BAKER WITH MARGARET ATWOOD FOR THE SOLSTICE , WINTER 2 0 2 1

Codfish Schooners at Winter's Rest.
The Charles Wilson and the C.A. Thayer
alongside Nordic Maid.
Near Poulsbo, Washington.
Dated 28 November 1953,
Click image to enlarge.
Low-res scan of a silver-gelatin original photo from  
the archives of the Saltwater People Historical Society©

Majestic Mt. Baker,
ready to lend us some white for the holidays.
Eagle Bluff on Cypress Island, WA.
Twenty December 2021.
A photograph courtesy of  L.A. Douglas,
Blakely Island, San Juan Archipelago, WA.

"This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight,

the year's threshold and unlocking,

where the past let's go of and becomes the future;

the place of caught breath, the door

of a vanished house left ajar..."

Margaret Atwood

Eating Fire: Selected Poetry 1965-1995