Photos of My Port Townsend

My Port Townsend – A City in Photographs

Entries for the ‘Around the Sound’ Category

Proud Parent

This goose stood on the edge of a pond in Carrie Blake Park in Sequim

Carrie Blake Park

We don’t have any big box department stores in Port Townsend. I ran out of printer ink and our local office supply store didn’t have what I needed, so the closest place to get get a replacement cartrige was Sequim, a bit over 30 miles west of P.T.. Sequim (pronounced sqwim), has a lovely park [...]

Lake Crescent

About an hour and a half west of Port Townsend lies beautiful Lake Crescent in Olympic National Park. We headed out for a hike to Marymere Falls, about a mile from the Lake Crescent parking lot. What we found was that the trails through the woods still had a good covering of snow. Most of the [...]

Port Townsend Presences at the Northwest Flower and Garden Show

Okay, this colorful wasp trap picture was shot in Seattle, not Port Townsend, but the company selling the traps, Toland Home Garden is based in Port Townsend. The bad news is that you can’t buy their products directly. Toland is a wholesaler.  The good news is that they sell  their wasp traps online through Mad [...]

Seattle from the Ferry

Sometimes the sky clears and the light comes out soft and perfect for a landscape, or in this case, a cityscape. This was taken on the ferry from Bainbridge Island as we neared the dock in downtown Seattle.

Cottonwoods along the Dungeness River

River Park in Sequim hosts some lovely cottonwood trees along the Dungeness River.

Male Gorilla at Woodland Park Zoo

This male Western Lowland Gorilla (named Pete) is munching on a tree branch. He seemed satisfied with chewing on the wood. There were no leaves to eat. Two separate groups of gorillas live in separate enclosures. Each group has one adult male and several females. The Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle proved a wonderful place [...]