Views of Sequim, the Olympic Peninsula. . .and beyond
This soda display caught my eye in the Sequim Coop. The Coop sells a great selection of old time nostalgia candy – like Turkish Taffy, which I remember from my childhood. Now there’s this soda array. This is just part of the display. I had no idea you could drink so many flavors of anything.
It’s looking like spring in front of the Red Rooster Grocery where you can find all things local. Vegetable starts are ready and waiting for those of us who are oh so ready to get outside and play in the dirt.
Chord’s favorite pal Jenny Bell came for a visit last weekend. They have the labrador retriever thing for tennis balls. There’s no game like a dog game.
“Jenny’s got the ball. She’s got a clear field to the left. She’s going to go long. . .no, wait. . .! It looks like there’s trouble on the field!”
“Jenny’s lost it! Chord’s down but he’s got the ball! What’s that he’s saying? Bob, can you pick it up from where you’re sitting?
Ed, I think he’s saying ‘Neener, neener, neener!'”
What game?
Here’s the latest season in my “Four Season Trees” series. These are the windbreak trees that line Kitchen Dick Road in western Sequim.
In most areas of the country this season is called “Spring.” I’ve begun to call it “Sprinter” because it’s sliding out of winter s-o-o-o slowly. This shot was taken on Monday, a month into spring, and there’s just the earliest hints of leaves. But in the field to the left you can see what is perhaps the truest harbinger of spring here: dandelions. They are paving fields with blooms. . .perhaps the subject of another post.
Here are the trees last winter.
And this is what they looked like in autumn.
This gives new meaning to the term “waterfront view.”
This piece of metal artwork by Sequim artist Per Berg was unveiled not long ago at a local business, High Energy Metal, in Carlsborg. It’s really gorgeous.
Metal Man was commissioned by the co-owner of High Energy Metal, Dave Brasher, a longtime friend of the artist’s family. It is over 8 feet tall and 300 lbs. Berg took about six months to complete the piece. An art graduate of The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Berg created the skeleton with steel rods and then used a plasma cutter to cut the steel pieces of the shape. A hammer refined the figure’s contours. The local Peninsula Daily News quoted Berg, 25, “Metal art is cool but a lot of artists are intimidated by it. I got a sunburn from it once and I caught myself on fire.”
Here’s the launching ramp at the John Wayne Marina, the start of many a happy day on Sequim Bay or out on the Strait of Juan de Fuca. To the left on the bottom floor is the Dockside Grille, a pleasing way to end hunger and one of the more upscale restaurants in the area.