Whidbey Island Chapter 3

No big history lesson today. This is the Captain Whidbey Inn in Coupeville. Built in 1907 as a resort for big city folk on the mainland (Seattle-Tacoma). It is made entirely from Madrone' trees (Arbutus menziesii) which are very unstraight so it is pieced together.

Pink Peony

Off to my mother's tomorrow. It will be a long day but nice to see my Mother. Kylee will get to see her Great grandmother and Dave will get a good lunch.
Pink Peony with Spideee.

Berry-Dairy Days

This week-end is Berry-Dairy Days in Burlington, a small town about 20 miles N. of my house. My youngest, Jolene, lives there. Burlington is down the hill from us in the Skagit Valley. So today we went to the parade and here are some pictures. The day was iffy--some sun until the clouds covered the sun. But nice! The parade was nice, typical small town, fire engines, tractors High School Band, horses etc.

More flowers from my yard

The wildflowers I photographed and posted yesterday are from a construction about 20 miles down I-5. I had to pull off and take a picture. These are from my yard. The Delphinium is the only one I have. There is Johnson Blue and Ballerina Hardy geraniums. Lavendar buzzing with bees and Rock Rose (Cistus) that I have across the front of the house. Our house has two fronts and two sides and no back--odd but true and even bewildering.

Wildflower Meadow

Summer days are here again.

Kylee

Kylee did OK at the Granite Falls Barrel racing on Thursday. She really only went for some practice for the rodeo on the week-end. At the rodeo she did good in barrels and only so-so in the poles.She rode Jewel in the barrels and after the rodeo on Saturday night she ran barrels in the jackpot and won $40, so she thought Wahoo. Weekend after this one she is going (maybe) to a rodeo not too far from us so I hope to go and watch her. Since she moved in with me i hope to get to go to more of her events. The pictures the photographer took haven't been posted on-line yet so I have no photos of her. You get her boots. lol And another tacking up pic..

Sky and Mountain

Yesterday was a chilly rainy day and it cleared up early evening. A beautiful cresent moon with I think, Venus to it's right. And today I had to down the hill to town to pay some bills and Mt. Baker was beautiful across the valley.