I’m far from Type A. Type Z, really. I love spontaneity, change, variety, surprise, and living a different life every day. I don’t make plans with my free time. I don’t live by structure or routine. I loathe sameness and prefer to see what life offers over what I demand …
I love when young people are given the opportunity to live out their passions. When I opened The Islands’ Sounder today and saw that Nikko Naugle, 9-year-old public elementary school student, is going to be a contributor to the paper, I was so thrilled. Thank you, editor Colleen, for helping …
Whenever we eat out, which is a rarity, we go to the same place every time – Mijitas. We even order the same things. Everything’s good, and we’ve found the dishes we love most. Coming from California, we were used to eating Mexican food all the time. Thank you, Raul, …
As weather reports predicted, we awakened to a wonderfully thick covering of snow this morning – perfect powder for sledding. Dreamy, really. It felt like today was a vacation somewhere else. Tired out from hiking the sledding hill, we walked into town for some après-sled mochas and cozy relaxation at …
I just can’t get enough of Eastsound blanketed in snow at night, paired with the night mode on my son’s iPhone. The images are sometimes ethereal, sometimes haunting, and sometimes nothing at all like what I see with my eyes. In general, everything I see is quite dark. Then night …
Water is always flowing here in the winter. In certain places, you’re only aware of it once it freezes. The high tide has given these a haircut… After taking these, my iPod shut off. It got too cold. Five minutes later, the most beautiful golden sunshine peeked through the clouds …
My husband, an avid triathlete, watches the weather like a hawk. He’s found that weather.com is accurate almost to the minute, and he always knows exactly when his windows are for running and biking. In the years we’ve been here, he’s never seen the “Wind Chill Warning” that was posted …
According to the weather report, snow will start again at 6 PM and continue all night tonight. There’s a good chance we’ll be waking up tomorrow to snow joy and sledding! The weather right now reminds me of a day years ago that my husband captured… For now, we’re milking …
Last night the snow began around 4:30. Five hours later, downtown Eastsound was blanketed in white. It was absolutely silent, except for fierce gusts of wind now and then that sent snow swirling in funnels. No one was around. I didn’t want to come home, as the fallen snow lit …
Yesterday. Today. Photos by Evan Kulper. I love this cartoon filter he has on his phone, and the way it makes nature photos look.
One of the planes you see flying above Orcas Island is this one… Inside it are a flight instructor and a student, from school age to adult, working to earn their pilot’s license. The plane belongs to the Airhawks Flying Club, a 501(c)(3) organization that exists with the intent to …
I’ve been wanting to post Brown Bear Baking for a long time now, but they’re so good at what they do, there’s usually a line out the door. For the sake of preserving people’s anonymity, I’ve been waiting for the perfect moment. Today is it! The wind and rain are …
We’ve had a lot of winters here on Orcas Island that are like gray blankets over the sky for two or three months straight with nonstop drizzle. This year, winter has been so wonderfully different. We haven’t had even a blanketed week. Sun has been in and out, which is …
At the same time I began this blog about Orcas Island, I wanted to start another one as well. I put it off, so as not to be overwhelmed. I’ve been sick in bed for the last several days, so it now exists… It’s called Navigating Christianity… and Finding God …
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