Ahhh… Seasons

Moving from Santa Barbara, California, to the San Juan Islands off the northern coast of Washington State gave us one of the biggest changes we coastal Californians had ever experienced – seasons! While summer here is sunny, stunningly beautiful, and very external, fall and winter bring a very palpable internal …

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Animals, Animals Everywhere

Step out of your door and you will see and hear animals everywhere you go here on Orcas Island. Deer amble through your front yard. Quail peck through your neighbor’s grass. Eagles soar above (with a call more appropriate for geriatric chickadees), and crows and ravens caw and glurb to each …

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