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Paperclip Nirvana

Maybe it’s because of where I’ve lived but there seems to be a shortage of good old fashioned stationery stores these days. Not big box megastores. You know, the kind where you can buy a single roll of scotch tape or mailing envelope and a good quality mechanical pencil. Olympic Stationers in Port Angeles is such a place.

It’s a tossup for me which I love more: a good stationery store or a good hardware store. I can usually look at things in a stationery store and figure out how to use them. That’s not always the case in hardware stores. I’ve always found what I’ve needed at Olympic Stationers. And because they stock so much, including home decor and such, I usually find plenty of other temptations, too.

Spring harbingers are resilient

It’s gotten below freezing overnight several times recently but so far it hasn’t discouraged some early heralds of spring. Hooray for that! I saw these blossoms yesterday.

A little winter color

Here’s a little something to brighten your day compliments of Dale Chihuly. This is at the Chihuly Garden and Glass in Seattle.

Red roofed barn

I’ve been meaning to get back to shoot this barn in better light…hasn’t happened.

Geologist humor

Seen on a car. Click here if you’re curious about schist.

Puget Sound Cooperative Colony

This is the second of two Ennis Creek murals painted by Corey Ench on the building that houses the Feiro Marine Life Center in Port Angeles. This one, set in 1889, portrays a group of early Port Angeles settlers, a utopian group called the Puget Sound Cooperative Colony. Hoping to improve their world, its founders were responsible for many Port Angeles firsts. They built the first Port Angeles opera house, many of the first local Christian churches and the first schoolhouse. The steam shipyard and lumber mill depicted in this mural were also the work of the Cooperative.

Although the Cooperative disbanded after ten years many of its members remained in Port Angeles and contributed to its development.

Both murals are nicely done. Here is a closer look at some of the detail work. The murals were completed in 1997.

The S’Klallam of Ennis Creek

There are two “Ennis Creek” murals outside the Feiro Marine Life Center in Port Angeles that portray scenes of local history. Created by Corey Ench, the first mural portrays the Native American history of the Ennis Creek area. The scene is of a S’Klallam village in 1750, an era “before contact” with white men. The traditional canoes shown here are an historic design still used today. Each carved from a single cedar log, the boats are both seaworthy and beautiful.

Because of the mural’s location it was impossible to back up far enough to get it into one frame. I know it can be stitched together in Photoshop but, regrettably, I don’t have the time and climbing gear to tackle that learning curve right now. I also haven’t cropped these shots. Above the diagonal of the roof line I was taken with how well the mural’s sky color caught the color of the day I was there.