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Theme Day: Bakeries

There we were with our weekend guests, downtown Sequim, and about to go home for dinner. Then I remembered: what about dessert? Okay, maybe I didn’t just “remember.” We were mere steps away from cupcake heaven, That Takes the Cake, and lemon blueberry and carrot cupcakes to go.

The baker was about to put finishing touches on this cake in the kitchen. She graciously brought it out when I asked if I could take a picture. Happy birthday, Katlyn!

“Bakeries” is today’s City Daily Photo Theme Day. Click here to view thumbnails for all participants.

How to choose

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.

Red Rooster Grocery

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.

Gimmee!

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?

Four Season Trees – Spring

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.

On Sequim Bay

This gives new meaning to the term “waterfront view.”

Metal Man

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.”