Morty Comix # 2668

Morty Comix # 2668 was placed behind a broken cedar siding shingle of a hall in a Thurston County, Washington park.

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Black Lake, Thurston County, Washington

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Black Lake, Thurston County, Washington

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Southwest Thurston County, Washington

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SR 8, Thurston County

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Peeling Madrona

(Hey, doesn't that sound like a good name for a band?)

Thurston County, Washington

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Mud Bay at low tide

Thurston County, Washington

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Mud Bay at low tide

Thurston County, Washington

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Mud Bay

Thurston County, Washington

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Thurston County, Washington

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Mud Bay

Thurston County, Washington

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Deep Lake, Millersylvania State Park, Thurston County, Washington

Morty Comix # 2519

Morty Comix # 2519 was slid behind a sign on an outdoor kitchen at Millersylvania State Park, Thurston County, Washington. Most of the structures at this park were built by the CCC in the 1930s.

Here I am with my Dad at Millersylvania, July 1959. As you can tell by my furtive expression, I knew that over a half century later I would be involved a bit of artistic mischief at this same place, so I was scoping the scene for a good place to hide a Morty Comix.

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Pioneer Rock, Thurston County, Washington

Enormous boulders were dropped here as the ice sheet retreated. This particular specimen used to sit alongside State Route 8 but was removed to the entrance of Boy Scout Camp Thunderbird (at the southern point of Summit Lake), about 20 years ago. It bears a barely readable inscription honoring early pioneers.

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No, that isn't me. The only elected office I ever sought to gain was for Democratic Precinct Committeeman for Mud Bay Precinct in Thurston County, Washington, in 1974, which has just dawned on me it was ALMOST 40 YEARS AGO! And I beat the incumbent only because I filed first and my name topped the ballot. But before my term was up I moved so I had to resign.

The Willis currently running for re-election as Grays Harbor County Commissioner is no relation to me, so far as I can ascertain from conversations with members of that family. I did vote for her when she first ran. But the brain cell jury is still out on whether or not I'll re-elect. Still gathering data.

There used to be a lot of Dickenson County, Virginia (Clintwood, Va.)-traced members of the Willis family in Grays Harbor and Pacific counties in the last century, but as far as I know, as of 2006 I am the last one of us left out here in this corner of the world between the two jurisdictions.

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Why does Thurston County use sperm symbols on the Official Ballot Drop Box?