Layover

 

Looking northeast from Anacortes towards the Cascade Mountains in Canada.  On our last trip to the San Juan Islands, we missed our scheduled ferry by three cars, so we enjoyed a few hours on the beach.

The Wall

A post is the perfect place to perch and watch the kayaks, feed the ducks, or just enjoy the early morning air.

Skywatch Friday: Clayton Beach

After digging through pictures of December's murky skies and perpetual twilight, I decided it was time to brighten the mood and post something from a half year ago when the summer evenings would last until almost ten o'clock at night.

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Low tide at Clayton beach exposes a strip of old pilings, remnants of the booming fishing industry that Whatcom County was built on.

Weekend Reflections: Waiting for the Keystone Ferry

I'm not sure what exactly this is for-- it looks like the ferry officials have repurposed pilings as a sort of watchtower, or maybe a monitoring station of some kind. The seagulls have repurposed the grass growing on top of the pilings to be their nests. So this collection of pilings is not only rather pretty, reflected in the still water off Whidbey Island, but apparently useful too.

Gray Sunset

Decaying wooden posts
climb from the water,
beseech the unreachable sky,
strive to escape their reflections--
ghosts of what they once were.