Whenever the incessant rain and cloudiness clears, I just have to book it up to my favorite spot, Ship Peak on the south side of Turtleback Trail. You can see why…
Thank you, Walker, for allowing me to photograph you when I came upon you.
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- How I Homeschool
- Reminiscing Pre-COVID Life
- There’s Nothing Like Fall
- No, No, No!!!!
- Gifts from the Wind
- 7 Years of Gardening Woes
- Bob and Lark – A Hard Goodbye
- The Gastropod Life is Good Here
- Find That Shaft of Light
- Bleak But Safe
- Tribute to Nest
- Thursday’s Perfection
- Near-Empty Ferry
- Berries and Cognitive Dissonance
- 寧為太平犬，不做亂世人*
- Two Gardens I Frequent
- Summer of Nightly TV
- Capping off a Staycation Summer
- Garden Generosity
- Hot Summer Weeks
- Hiking Up to Ship Peak
- Too Much Me, Not Enough You
- Aerials
- Church on a Hill
- Orange Tide
- Lake Contentment
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- The Strangest 4th of July Ever
- Not Cool
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- Rejection
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- Youth Sunday Livestream in 30 Minutes
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- A Life Without Technology
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- iPhone 11 Commercial
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- Car Commercial
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- And Now It’s Snowing
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- Final Christmas Shopping
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- Don’t Miss This
- A Successful Market It Was
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- “Tim Went Fishing…
- In Case You Forget the Good…
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- Until Next Year, Cross Country
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- Witches on the Water
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- I Am My Own Enemy
- A Final Goodbye, Orcas Style
- It’s Now Officially Jacket Weather
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- One Hour Equals Twelve
- My Favorite Kind of Day
- Fall Five Years Ago
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- Her Last Orcas Island Birthday
- This Is Me
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- Hovering Over Beauty
- Portable Planetarium Show
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- My Funniest VBS Moment
- Journal From a Visitor
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- But Will They Ever Sleep?
- Island Market Makes Cents!
- This is Cathy
- Stunning
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- How We Choose Our Mayor
- Children, Be Encouraged by Trump
- A Pique at the Cirque
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- I Can, So Should I?
- A Day at the Zoo
- Freaking Awesome Cirque-US
- I Miss Affordable Muffins
- Worthy Bread
- Daycation on Shaw Island
- Home Alone
- Fun at the Nursery
- A Look at Tiny
- Eloping on Orcas Island
- Late Afternoon
- Inspired by a Pink Cupcake
- Trashion Fashion Show
- Kids’ Variety Show
- Mud Run
- Time for Three
- Blowing it with National Geographic
- Bob and Iris
- Physical Calligraphy
- Jeopardy Try-Out
- Apple-Grafting Class
- Walter Mitty and Scott Kelly
- Body Job
- Seniors Have Talent
- My Brush with Jeopardy
- Annual Science Fair
- Development Everywhere
- To Homeschool or Not
- Mamma Mia!
- Spring Sprang Saturday!
- The Sabbath and “Weird Al”
- 4 Hours of Gentle Snow Today
- My Brother’s Art
- Not for the Faint of Heart
- Art from Paper Plates
- Sunshine After the Big Snow
- Temperate Island to Tropical Island
- Snowbound Church Service
- Last Night’s Lunar Eclipse and Blood Moon
- Rainy Movie Night Ideas
- When the Norm Isn’t Right
- Community Dinners…WOW
- Ocean Night at Sea View Theatre
- An Unusually Springy Winter
- He Was the First to Ride an Orca
- The Story of Stuff
- Tech Time for Senior Citizens
- Life Goes Internal
- Local Phenoms Kaj and Tashi in Concert Soon
- The Annual Children’s Christmas Market
- The Annual Santa Ship
- Fun with My Homies
- The Holiday Artisan’s Faire
- Tomorrow’s Children’s Christmas Market and Concert
- One Year of Orcas Blogging
- Russel Barsh and The Insect Club
- Holiday Events Abound
- The Things of Fall
- Camp Orkila’s Annual Fall Festival
- Joining the Local CSA
- A Little Audio Story From My Past
- Our Technicolor Fall
- Not Only Are the Orca Whales Dying…
- The 5th Annual Orcas Island Film Festival
- The Annual Orcas Island Farm Tour
- A Talk for Animal Lovers
- A Whale of a Show
- The Case of the Missing Garden Sign
- Lance Armstrong Came to Town
- Camping on Sucia Island
- Trump’s Own Words
- Meet Canoe Island
- Visiting the Shaw Island Nunnery
- If You’re Perfect, You Won’t Understand
- Kayaking the Cold, Crystal Waters of the Puget Sound
- Gone to the Fair
- Zumba-ing
- The End of A Dream for Leo Lambiel
- Devastation After One Little Power Outage
- Art Tour – A 3-Day Sensory Adventure
- Art Tour – Kandis Susol’s Paper & Encaustics
- Art Tour – Sean Forest Roberts’s Ceramics
- Art Tour – Anusha Solayea’s Jewelry
- Art Tour – Thomas Leonard’s Blacksmithing
- Art Tour – Barbara Gourley’s Oil Paintings
- Art Tour – Michael Yeaman’s Geology & Stone Work
- Art Tour – Zackarya Leck’s Blacksmithing & Sculpture
- Art Tour – Peg O’Hara’s Mixed Media
- Art Tour – Sharon Ho’s Ceramics
- Art Tour – Barbara Bentley’s Fiber Art Socks
- Art Tour – Mary Jane’s Ceramics
- Art Tour – Bruce Wilson’s Thermal Oil & Wax
- Art Tour – Rosemarie Altberg’s Family
- Art Tour – Kim Middleton’s Bird Paintings
- Building Character
- My Mom’s First Official Book Review
- He Made a Choir of Us
- A Time of Jubilee
- Life on Orcas Island
- The Blackberries Are Here
- Swimming Across the Lake
- Home Sweet Home Via Barge
- Summer Camps and Activities on Orcas Island
- 4th of July Fireworks off the Barge
- Four Festivities on the Summer Solstice
- Digital-Era Parenting
- The Basic Stops and Our Favorite Shop
- Time to Build the Wood Pile
- Walking and Reading
- Flowers of Summer
- Growth on Orcas Island
- Fermentation is in the Air
- Anthony Howe’s Kinetic Sculptures
- $15 Goes a Long Way at The Exchange
- Our Son Flew This Cessna Today
- The Lime Kilns on Orcas Island
- Seattle Rock Orchestra’s Annual Visit to Orcas Island’s Doe Bay
- Orcas Island Marine Life
- Newts Abounding
- Riding a Tall Ship off Whidbey Island
- Clay Cafe – A Favorite April Diversion
- The Tulip Fields are Bursting
- New Life in Our “Backyard”
- From Orcas Island to Kenyan Orphanage and Back
- Carnival Day at the Orphanage
- We’re Headed to an African Orphanage This Month
- The Paper Airplane that Won the Drone
- What Really Keeps You Healthy?
- The Orcas Oscar Report
- Highway Thru Hell to Skating, Sledding, and Snowshoeing
- He Paddled All the Way to Alaska on a Stand-Up Paddleboard
- Bulbs and Buds Don’t Lie – Spring Is On Its Way
- How Fitting That It’s Snowing During Mid-Winter Break
- We Watched Our Dog Almost Drown Today
- Island Icicles
- Orcas Island’s Dark Underbelly, If You Could Call It That
- The Sun Came Out Yesterday
- From Broke to Opulent in South Africa ~ A Story From My Past
- 17 Things About Living in Constant Rain
- Meet Dan and Katie
- How You Stack Your Firewood Says Something About You
- Period ~ A Story from My Past
- Under the Blanketed Sky
- Roadside Goodies
- A Typical Winter Walk on Orcas Island
- A Lovely Good Evening Tonight on Orcas Island
- Naming the Underwater Cable
- Snow Joy
- How Can a 7-Year-Old Help Every Oppressed Person? Let Me Know…
- The Flyer That Changed Everything ~ A Story from My Past
- Orcas Island, Preserved in Jam
- Orcas Island’s Young Entertainers
- Hello, New Year, from Orcas Island
- Winter Hibernation = Creative Proliferation
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Thank you!
Thanks Steve!
Love Turtleback, it is a treasure!
We love that trail too! Today we did snow covered Coho Preserve… highly recommended it
Oh, sounds awesome, Sheila!