Wine Tasting
Lummi Island Wine Tasting September 8 ’12 Drydock Weekend 1
Drydock Okay folks, it’s here: Annual Drydock. The Whatcom Chief has steamed off to wherever she goes to get her bearings greased, her rust removed, her makeup tidied up. Walking along Island roads today we noticed an odd combination of somewhat contradictory feelings. One is a sense of Vacation, as if we have suddenly been […]
Lummi Island Wine Tasting September 1 ’12 Studio Tour
OMD, Drydock!… a brief rant When I was a child, summer was Magical, seeming to last and last, challenging your ability to come up with things to do. Another bike ride to the ball field for a pickup game, a walk to the store for a soda, another novel from the library and maybe the […]
Lummi Island Wine Tasting August 25 ’12
Drydock Looms Like a great shadow looming in the foreground of consciousness, a vaguely threatening phantom haunting the unconscious, or like Arctic natives feeling the first vestiges of the coming Winter, Island residents are consciously and unconsciously bracing for the annual Ordeal of Drydock. This is when our trusty ferry, the Whatcom Chief, goes out […]
Wine Tasting August 18 ’12
Thoughts on the First Annual (?) Lummi Island Jazz Festival Last Saturday was complicated around our place, for two reasons (see last week’s post). First, it was the day of the Jazz Festival, ostensibly a fund-raising event for the remodel of the Island Library, which, as I pointed out last week, belongs to the people […]
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