Sometimes a spot just looks welcoming.
Category: Houses
Sweet
Cute playhouses never fail to catch my eye. I always wanted one as a child. It’s probably why I like smaller rooms as an adult. All I need now is a set of Legos.
Dollar house update
It will be a year next month since this beautiful old Craftsman house arrived by barge in Sequim. From there it took a torturous journey by truck up a steep hill, around a too-tight corner, and down various roads to its new resting place. This post from last February will take you back and provide a link to my original post starting when the house arrived.
There hasn’t been much construction this summer as you can see in the photo above, taken last Friday. Boards are off the windows. Jim, one of the owners, tells me the next step is to sell their home in Hawaii that’s now on the market. He and his wife are living here in the house. I neglected to ask how they’re getting in and out. I sure hope that ladder on the right isn’t the only access.
Sweet
Sometimes a house and its setting just seems to work. I think this one qualifies. Agree?
Further explorations at Bloedel Reserve
A walkway zig zags through a marshy bog at the Bloedel Reserve on Bainbridge Island. I didn’t consult my guide while I was there but later discovered that a healthy cluster of nearby plants was, as I thought, carnivorous. They are in the middle crook of the walkway and you might make out their oval heads.
While not exactly a rain forest, parts of the Bloedel Reserve resemble rain forests in Western Washington and are rich in lichen, mosses, and ferns.
The forest walk opens onto the first of several ponds created by Prentice Bloedel as he developed the reserve. Although his fortune came from the timber industry, Bloedel initiated conservation practices in the industry and carefully created water features at the Reserve only where the natural high water table permitted. He was an interesting man. Read more about him here.
The nearby Bloedel Residence is used for exhibits, cultural events, and administrative offices. It is on a bluff that overlooks Port Madison Bay and Puget Sound. A lawn in the back opens onto a gorgeous water view.
Searching for Frodo
This little dwelling looks suspiciously like a Hobbit house made visible by the winter die back of vegetation.
Some say there are Sasquachs (A.K.A. “Bigfoot”) in Washington state. If you’re a believer it’s not too much of a stretch to imagine Hobbits, too.
Hull house
This unusual house is perched above the main street of LaConner, the sweet little city where we stayed during our trip to the Skagit Valley last month. I suppose this might be one of those marital compromises: he wanted to live aboard a boat; she wanted to stay on solid ground. In any case they both have a nice view of the water.