Here’s another sunset from Florence, Oregon, straight out of the camera.
Category: Beyond the Olympic Peninsula
Our trip to Florence
Okay. We didn’t go to the Florence you’re thinking of, unless your mind immediately went to Florence, Oregon, located on the central Oregon coast. We took a trip there last month to meet up with a friend from California, Marie, whose photos you see posted today. She captured one of our evenings with such elegance I had to show you two of my favorites. (Thank you, Marie!)
Florence is located at the north end of the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area, the largest coastal sand dunes in North America. The dunes stretch for 40 miles along the coast and vary from typical beach dunes with low grasses to inland parabola dunes that edge forest lands. This view is along a manmade jetty that edges the Suislaw River as it spills into the Pacific Ocean.
Marie is considering moving to Florence. What do you think? Should she do it?
Theme Day: Facade
Today is theme day at City Daily Photo and I found this month’s challenge, “Façade,” in the coastal town of Florence, Oregon. “Old Town” Florence has a number of late 19th century buildings that sport classic high fronts that reveal a different look if you can peak around the side.
Façades haven’t faded from the architectural toolbox. I found this one in Florence, too, in a newer part of town. The building is being renovated, but I still found the backside of the façade amusing.
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Art? Animosity?
This guy is displayed prominently in the front parking area of a small business in Shelton, Mason County, south of the Olympic Peninsula. It’s certainly a political statement. But can you also call it sculpture? Vendetta?
The anti-Target, or K-Mart, or WalMart
This is a marine hardware store in Annacortes. It’s the part of the store that sells used items: hardware, fittings, floats, you name it. It has a creaky, worn wooden floor and smells like your crazy uncle’s basement, full of surprises, possibilities, and, well, old stuff.
Stores like this are disappearing. A kindred cousin in Port Townsend closed not long ago, victim of our passion for quicker or cheaper or ready-made. A place like this is visual amazement. Most of the things on the shelves don’t have perfect look-alikes next to them. Nothing’s lined up like miniature soldiers ready for service. It certainly doesn’t look like one of our predictable and clean big box stores. It’s adventure shopping at its finest for the inherent scavenger. And a nightmare for anyone craving tidy.
Barn and Baker
Views of Mount Baker, on the eastern side of Puget Sound, are elusive and ethereal from the Olympic Peninsula. It was a treat to see it beyond this barn when we visited the Skagit Valley for the Tulip Festival last month.
Restraint remourse
These teacups at an Anthropologie store in Portland caught my eye. I have a cupboard full of mugs – mine and many inherited from my mother. There’s no room for more. But I still wish a couple of these had come home with me.