About 15 years ago some people moved into the Sequim, Wa area and started growing lavender. For growing purposes the North Olympic Peninsula has some similarities to Provence, so it was a good idea. The growers started an annual lavender festival, showing their farms and selling products made from lavender. The festival grew and now [...]
We spent Friday over in Sequim. The reason for heading over there was to see the Sequim Lavender Festival, though much of our time was taken up with just looking around. It’s funny how often you can visit a place and not notice things. We found several businesses that we’d never noticed before, and, here [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
