Category: Day Trip

A New Beginning

Salt Creek Silhouette by Bob Selby

Thanks to my friend Bob Selby for taking this stunning photo of me at Salt Creek Recreation area as the sun rose.

It is my great honor to fill in for Kay who has been sharing our beautiful area via her photos for over 9 years. We wish her some rest,relaxation, and recovery…

The Olympic Peninsula is an amazing place, filled with wonderful people. I have been blessed to call Sequim my home now for 6 yrs. I hope to share with you a little slice of Sequim and beyond thru my lens.

Please comment on the photos and let me know what you like. I have pretty broad tastes in photography, and I am excited to share with you.

Port Townsend landmark

I found a couple of photos in my archives of the Post Office, Customs House and Court building in Port Townsend. It is an imposing sandstone block building that took about eight years to build. Plans changed. Final cost of the structure was just under $242,000.

Opened in 1893, it was the first federally funded post office in Washington state. In the center left of this shot is the entrance to the post office, one of the finer examples of a U.S. Postal Service structure I’ve seen in quite some time.

Here’s a link to more information on the history of this building.

Seattle ghost sign

I took this photo two months ago on a trip to Seattle. I took it out the window of the car as we undertook one of DH’s driving adventures. It started with “If we drive down two blocks here and turn the road will lead us right onto Aurora Avenue and then it will be a straight shot up to Edmonds.”

This was in one of the neighborhoods we explored while we searched for Aurora. It became sort of a magical mystery tour. When we asked for directions from a cop who was directing traffic around a street construction projects he responded, “I don’t know. I’m not from around here.”

Yeah. There were some tense moments. But we were speaking again by the time we eventually turned onto Aurora Avenue.