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.
Category: Lavender
Purple madness
Last weekend was our annual Lavender Festival. I ventured out to meet friends last Friday and nipped through downtown on errands. Traffic was heavy enough to keep me home the rest of the weekend. There’s still plenty of lavender left for anyone looking for a quieter scene.
Here comes purple
I saw this outside one of our downtown lavender shops on Saturday. In the local lavender fields plants are green again and starting to show halos of all shades of purple blossoms. Our annual Lavender Festival starts on July 20th, celebrating all things lavender.
Lavender in 2017
Sequim is synonymous with lavender and the views are gorgeous in mid-summer when it’s in bloom. We had a good year in 2017.
You can buy lavender here in many forms.
This fragrant herb can produce happy moments.
Eye candy
Lavender Connection seems to have an affinity for old and funky. No complaints from my camera.
Sweethearts
A special moment at the Lavender Festival.
All that lavender
Here’s another way that the lavender in Sequim gets processed: it’s dried. We were invited into the drying barn at Kitty B’s Lavender where workers were busy processing bundles of lavender to be hung and dried.
Bundles are hung like string bound vines with fans running to keep down mildew.
Dried lavender is sold as aromatic bouquets and sachets, woven into wreaths and flower arrangements, and some strains have culinary uses as in herbs de Provence. It can be mixed into baking soda and used as a carpet freshener or mixed into sugar as a flavoring.