300+ Pigs

A Sow Munches on Grape Hyacinth

Across from the Dungeness Creamery on Towne Road is a farm where apparently, the owner raises pigs.

Every spring, those of us who walk the levee trail see sows as they graze the field, feed their piglets, and often doze between feedings. It’s fun to watch, but a challenge to photograph since they’re quite a distance from the road; so a long lens is required. Even so, capturing the piglets on camera is more difficult due to their size, so I focus on the sows.

And I do so because I find them to be endearing since I once had a collection of over 300 stuffed, ceramic, and painted pigs that surrounded me in an otherwise dull and sterile cubicle.

Each of them helped make work less stressful by easing tensions that sometimes (or often) arose in the workplace, and because my coworkers, and friends gifted them to me, they held good memories with each one having a delightful story behind it.

But sadly, after I retired and we moved to Sequim, it was time to part with them and since a neighbor’s daughter loved them too, I regifted most of them to her and she has been there caretaker ever since.

But to this day, I still find pigs to be endearing, and therefore, the collection continues- with photos and good memories that will travel with me wherever I go.