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Evergreen Collision Center, 1 of 3

Last spring I posted photos of an old tow truck parked next to Evergreen Collision Center on Washington Street. A month or two later DH visited Evergreen and came home insisting that I’d find it a fascinating place. “Old cars. All kinds of interesting stuff.” Yeah. Right. Guy stuff.

Yesterday he finally prevailed and I’m glad he did. In some ways it defies description.

Imagine a mashup of childhood toys, a small museum, and a dream collection of 20th century autos and auto memorabilia. Then throw in a big helping of other nostalgia and you might come close to what two glassed in areas of Evergreen look like.

Evergreen’s owner is the collector, and what a collection! I’ll show you more in the next couple of days.

Theme Day: My city’s skyline

The City Daily Photo theme today, “my city’s skyline,” presupposes a dynamic city view. Towering buildings, preferably lit against a dramatic night sky. Or a city perched at the edge of shimmering water. As nice a city as Sequim is, you’re not going to find this kind of drama in its skyline. This is a view of our main street on a quiet Sunday afternoon in winter. I spiked it with a little Photoshop.

This is our tallest building, a retired grain elevator. You can see it in the distant middle in the previous shot. There’s a Mexican restaurant at it’s base where there was once a farm cooperative.

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Deer and more deer

The neighborhood deer are accompanied by little spotted fawns in summer. We try to harden our hearts to them — they are, after all, landscape eating machines. But they’re cute and this trio has ranged around our yard a lot. So one day when Mom and only one fawn grazed across our land we mourned the missing fawn, sadder than we’d expected. Several days later, the trio reappeared. Multiple family units, apparently.

Then this young buck showed up, confident and a little cocky. The two Pomeranian dogs next door were apoplectic. He was unfazed.

He came back later with a younger buddy.

Lots of deer also graze at the Dungeness Recreation Area. This time of year the grass is high enough that sometimes ears are the biggest clue they’re there.

Shadow rock

DH pointed out the interesting shadow here. I don’t give him enough credit for the photos he suggests.

Grass and light

I’m still experimenting with my new little Lumix camera. It caught the textures that attracted me this day. And it handled the Kay Phenomenon: the wind always — always — picks up the minute I point the camera.

(For those who’ve asked or wondered, it’s a Panasonic Lumix model DMC-ZS50.)

Summer serviceberries

Last spring I posted pictures of the abundant blooms of these native bushes here. Today’s shots are an update on what those blooms from the serviceberries have become. As we might have guessed from the masses of spring blossoms, we have a bumper crop of berries this summer.

Bushes are covered with berries. And though I haven’t always found them tasty in the past some of the trees are bearing pretty palatable offerings this year. I’m sure the local birds are grateful.

It’s a thing

Some months ago I posted photos of a series of painted rocks that I’d discovered while walking around Port Angeles, Sequim’s neighbor to the west. Now I’ve discovered it’s become a thing here, too. Sequim Rocks.

I found this rock — no, it’s not a forgotten Easter egg — alongside a trail at Dungeness Recreation Area recently. I didn’t learn until later that the idea is to pick up found rocks, photograph them and post it on the Sequim Rocks Facebook page, then nestle them elsewhere. Some people have painted and beautifully decorated rocks and children have gotten into the act with their artwork, too. By the time I got back, this rock had moved to a new home.

Sequim rocks!