Whidbey Island Highland Games, August 11, 2001

 

Passing by one of the massive Boeing facilities in the Puget Sound area, in Everett. That Boeing building is the largest building in the world...

 

Waiting for the Mukilteo to Whidbey Island ferry...

 

       

 

       

 

On the ferry for the short trip over to Whidbey Island...

 

       

 

     

 

The Whidbey Island High Games, Whidbey Island, Washington State...

 

www.wihg.org

       

 

       

 

       

 

       

 

 

 

To the Whidbey Island to Port Townsend ferry...

 

       

 

 

 

Port Townsend, Washington State's "Victorian" seaport...

 

         

 

On the bluff above Port Townsend I came across this beautiful sight. The sun was beginning to sink low in the sky and the light was perfect against the red of the arbutus (Arbutus memzieii, aka "madrona") tree and the deep blue of Puget Sound. The digital camera couldn't quite pick it up, but snow-capped Mount Baker was visible in the distance, on the mainland side of the Sound. I stayed around for a half hour watching this man work, and I drove away inspired...

 

       

 

Getting on back to Seattle... the Hood Canal Bridge...

 

The ferry from Bainbridge Island to Seattle...

 

       

 

       

 

 

Back in Bellevue...

 

At Mamasan Japanese Restaurant in Bellevue, with Atsuko and Yamada-sensei... Atsuko-san sang a charming version of Edelweiss...