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The book sale

The Friends of Sequim Library have a book sale on the second Saturday of each month (as in today). It’s held in and around this tiny building located behind the Sequim Library. In dry weather there are tables in front set up and covered with books on each side of the white front door. More tables line the walls of outside covered areas on both sides of the building. Thousands of books are offered outside for 25 cents each. Inside a tiny room is loaded with shelving full of more current and premium books for slightly higher but still great prices.

There’s a tiny building that takes donations and it’s always been packed when I’ve dropped off books.

Sequim is a community of readers and both the library and the library book sale are well attended. My personal book shelves are full of great reads I’ve acquired at the sales.

Chickens, eggs, and potatoes

Many people around here raise chickens. I bought a box of beautiful, pastel eggs from a neighbor yesterday. These are chickens from a big flock at The Farm, a little stand on Sequim-Dungeness Road.

The eggs were sold out the day I was there but I picked up a delicious bag of Russian fingerling potatoes. The onions looked great but I ran out of change. I’ll go back.

Patterns

A stairway at the Sequim High School Auditorium.

Unusual sighting

Here is a picture of the rarely seen headless bald eagle.

…Okay… I’m joking. They’re not so rare. The ones with heads have an enviable ability to rotate it around and preen their backs and wings. But they look pretty interesting while they’re preening, don’t they?

New building

I visited the new Museum and Arts Center last December and showed you a couple of exhibits inside, here and here. But I didn’t take shots of the exterior on that trip. Here it is on a quiet Sunday afternoon recently. It’s still getting finishing touches but it has a nice hometown feel to it.

What was I thinking?

I downloaded this photo yesterday from a camera I hadn’t used for a while. It is a tangle of stems from a dish garden but I couldn’t tell you why I took two photos of it. I may have been exploring a lens that isn’t going to make the cut. But…whatever it is…it expresses what life looks like to me sometimes on a wintry Monday morning.

Oh…deer

This is the sort of thing that happens around here when people start feeding the local deer. A herd shows up now a couple of times a day when a neighbor puts out food. This is just part of the group that lines up for chow. The full group numbered 11 here. When they finish the handout they graze their way around the neighborhood.

It’s not that I don’t like sweet, furry animals…which they certainly are. It’s that feeding them is a bad idea.

Why? They get dependent and stop their natural foraging. They aren’t always fed appropriate food. These animals come from a natural area and cross a busy road to get to the free chow (and most, like the one above, don’t look before they cross). I like furry animals. I hate roadkill.