Views of Sequim, the Olympic Peninsula. . .and beyond
Pioneer Park is a little park in downtown Sequim. It’s on Washington Street, the town’s main drag. In springtime a combination of flowering trees and shrubs completely lights up this little corner of the world.
It’s a pretty spot year round but springtime is magnificent.
There’s so much to enjoy about traveling. Planning and anticipating. Then there’s the experience of the trip itself. Then, later, it’s looking back at the photos. This is a doorway in Angra do Heroismo on Terceira Island in the Azores. A moment. A memory.
A good friend dropped off a present at my front door yesterday: Gift wrapped toilet paper and two face masks. The card, above, says “I’d totally share my toilet paper with you.” On the inside it read, “Friends don’t let friends Covid alone!” In the bottom corner inside, with a drawing of two rolls of toilet paper, the words “Let’s just roll with it.” And she even gave me supplies to make a couple of the cards myself.
Made my day.
Bringing together elements of history.
There’s a furious debate going on about opening the U.S. economy again.
Many people are suffering terrible hardships and there are no easy answers. What’s truly frightening is that it can cause even greater devastation and hardship if impatience wins the day. At this writing the U.S., which has four percent of the world’s population, has 32% of the world’s reported Covid-19 cases. Worldwide there are an average 447 cases per million population; in the U.S. it’s 3,507 per million. The numbers aren’t kind.
We were able to go walking again last Saturday. It was a banner stroll: three eagle sightings and three hummingbird sightings. My favorite birds, great and small.
Here’s a photo from the Port Townsend Kinetic Sculpture race last October. After two months of sheltering in place it’s fascinating that it’s almost shocking to see all those people. A public event now, with a big crowd, seems so alien, doesn’t it?
Some of these changes are almost dizzying.