Views of Sequim, the Olympic Peninsula. . .and beyond
I’ve regularly seen the fields on the other side of this barn as I’ve passed on Old Olympic Highway. Cattle graze here. But the buildings are hard to see from a passing car so I took a short drive down a nearby road.
The operation is called “Rubberneck Ranch.” The sign explains: “Where our business is everyones.”
As I whizzed by on the road these sunflowers were bright and cheery. I didn’t notice that many were drooping until I crawled up the fence to shoot them. And that was before the rain and wind battered us all on Saturday.
It will be a year next month since this beautiful old Craftsman house arrived by barge in Sequim. From there it took a torturous journey by truck up a steep hill, around a too-tight corner, and down various roads to its new resting place. This post from last February will take you back and provide a link to my original post starting when the house arrived.
There hasn’t been much construction this summer as you can see in the photo above, taken last Friday. Boards are off the windows. Jim, one of the owners, tells me the next step is to sell their home in Hawaii that’s now on the market. He and his wife are living here in the house. I neglected to ask how they’re getting in and out. I sure hope that ladder on the right isn’t the only access.
Another summer’s over. Not that I don’t like autumn. I just don’t like the winter that seems to come too soon and stay too long.
One of the pleasures of driving down an unfamiliar road is unexpectedly coming across the odd barn here and there. Our agricultural heritage is never far away.
Port Book and News in Port Angeles is one of the local stops on a book lover’s circuit. They sell both new and used books and have a robust selection of periodicals. After combing library book sales — another great resource for readers — I managed to find two more Michael Connelly books to fill out my obsessive growing library of Bosch mysteries.
Not only was it covered with gleaming chrome and leather, it was about as shiny as it could get. Rides like this don’t come cheap.