Category: Island Life

Just enjoy the view.  (Pics below.)  A seemingly little mentioned beautiful thing about spring (especially in the Evergreen State where I live) is the gorgeous way that this

One of the best things about our backyard is our red five foot claw foot bathtub.  It’s far superior to its tiny indoor cousin.  This time of year

Somedays you just want to get away.  At least I do.  I love love love to travel.  But these days my life is pretty stationary.  That’s why yesterday

I grew up in Minnesota.  Three days after I graduated from college there I packed my bags and split.  Why?  Because I’ve never appreciated the MN weather.  It’s

One of the reasons I love the island we live on. I mean this exists! I think it’s gorgeous. I don’t ever tire of the beauty I see

Our island is rife with lavender. Come summer this field will be a purple haven awash with the hum of buzzing bumble bees and the wafting scent of

Discovered this yesterday in a friend’s yard: Tree of hearts or more real life magic. Thanks Universe. Smile.

My husband got chills when he heard this.  Last Tuesday a boat left Seattle carrying Native American artifacts from a Seattle museum back to their homeland.  On route, it

I find mist/fog so ethereal, don’t you?  It hides what is normally in plain sight and makes everything feel so mysterious and other worldly.  What IS out there?

There are lots of things that I love about our island. The list is really too long to mention all the way through, but one of the things