Author: Kay

My funny valentine

Whimsy Park, which I showed you yesterday, has a small area called the Sequim Friendship Garden. A group of Sequim artists populates the garden with hand-painted rocks and tiles. I think it’s an outgrowth of Sequim Rocks, which I’ve told you about here and here.

The sign says, “Need a rock. Take a rock. To help you thru today. Have a rock, leave a rock to send it on its way.”

Many of the painters try to encourage a positive message, be it on a tile or lettered on a painted rock. Painted rocks are also randomly left around town. They brighten the day of people who unexpectedly discover these little gifts. A painted heart rock above came home with me.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Back to Whimsy Park

I showed you Whimsy Park several years ago here when it was just getting started. I dropped by recently with a mission I’ll tell you about tomorrow.

Since I first showed it to you in 2017 the landscaping has matured. A formerly bare portion of the wall shown above now has a neutral backing for a small stage that hosts occasional live entertainment. Small trees are beginning to mature though late on a winter’s day I didn’t photograph them.

Interesting characters overlook the scene.

This little park is on East Washington Street in downtown Sequim next to Jose’s Famous Salsa restaurant.

Sequim High School

I don’t think that I’ve shown Sequim High School before. I took a self-guided tour one Sunday afternoon recently. This is an area of classrooms.

As best I can tell the high school has around 975 students.

The high school auditorium on the left. The school district offices are in the building to the right. I featured the auditorium stairs in a post recently here.

This is the cafeteria. Its large, bright look is the polar opposite of my high school cafeteria, a dark, noisy, packed dungeon that I suspect accounts for my lifelong aversion to crowds.

Lake country

Last week was quite a week. We woke to snow on Monday. It mostly melted. It snowed again on Tuesday morning. Then it began to rain on Tuesday and someone forgot to turn off the faucet. It rained steadily through to Friday and the standing water above is one of the results. There were small lakes everywhere, including the usually dry pasture above.

We’ve had a lot of rain this year and you can see where water tables are high. Though rainfall tapered off by the weekend it’s taking time for water to seep back into the ground. Until then… welcome to lake country.

The unchanging barn

I first showed you this barn in 2012 when it was looking frail and showing its age. I returned again in 2017 with my zoom lens for an update. It seemed ready to fail. In 2018 it didn’t look much different. And, frankly, last week it looked pretty much the same. I have been told that this is the aptly named Barnfather barn.

This brings to mind the Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) quote, “The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.”