Category: Downtown Sequim

Downtown

I haven’t shown downtown Sequim in a while so we’ll take a mini tour starting today. This is the first block of West Washington.

I’ve featured two spots of note in this shot. The taller stone front, in the middle, is That Takes the Cake for cupcakes and wedding cakes. Click here to take a look inside. And to its right is Sequim Kabob House, site of a great lunch I enjoyed last April.

As you face the buildings in the first shot, above, these buildings are to the left, or east. At the far left corner you can see one of our four stoplights.

If you note an absence of traffic on the street its simply because I took these shots in the early evening after many of our downtown businesses were closed for the day.

Here’s a view down the street, under the green overhang you see in the second shot above.

We’ll look at the other side of the street tomorrow.

Trees as metaphor

There are several trees with this fascinating peeling bark outside my dentist’s office. They’re a great diversion when the hygienist removes her toolbox from my mouth.

This tree seems to me to be a metaphor about life. There are so many layers of old ways peeling off and shedding. They flap around, unexpectedly flexible. And somewhere underneath it all is a younger, fresher creation inside, ready to take on the next challenges.

It seems better than just looking at oneself and seeing old and crinkly, don’t you think?

Surprise murals

I took my winter-grimed car to a do-it-yourself car wash recently and when I finished I drove through to a set of murals on the back of Sequim’s Museum and Art Center. I’ve been in the front door but not the back. Here was a mural titled “Nicole Brownfield Rowland,” a woman I assume is from one of our pioneer families.

Bob Matriotti and Herb Lehman are named in this mural.

And here are two unnamed folks I’m calling The Apple People. I didn’t check carefully but it doesn’t look like these murals are signed.

The Sequim Museum and Art Center is scheduled to move this summer into a new building currently under construction on North Sequim Road. I don’t know if these murals on their current Cedar Street building will move, too.

Let’s do lunch

DH had wanted to go to Sequim Kabob House for ages. We finally decided the moment had come. Since there was so much we hadn’t tried we ordered a platter that gave us some of everything. Actually it was two platters. Part 1 is above, an array of “starters” from falafels and hummus to baba ganoush and pita bread.

Here’s Part 2. The food was so good I kept forgetting to take pictures. So the shish kebabs have been attacked. They arrived with delicious pieces of lamb, chicken, and beef along with rice and grilled peppers, tomatoes, and onions.

Need I say we pretty much skipped dinner that night?