Final end-of-the-year post: saw my brother, Jonah in the arms of the troll, watched the Eras Tour movie, and the Seattle City skyline as we prepared to dock.

Larry & Jasper

Caught by a troll? Looks like it. 🙂

An era. 🙂

This did not exist when I grew up here (the wheel), but it is kinda neat looking. I’ve yet to go in as well. The waterfront part of Seattle is a nice place to spend some time. 2023. Time for 2024 . . . .

Our trip was a nice get away and I realize each time I go to Bainbridge Island just how much I love being there, which I have mentioned before. One of the new art installations around these islands are wooden huge trolls. Sara is posing in the arms of one on Bainbridge for perspective. We went there following our surprising win at trivia at the local cider house. I’m dropping a few other photos here and will slowly work my way through the ones that I took on this trip.

Sara in the troll.

I met up with an old friend from my days at Dusty Strings Company, where Doug was a woodworker and I was a dulcimer set-up, stringer and tuner/test player. This was back in 1989. It was super great to see Doug and Beth and go on a hike together.

I have a beard and Doug has a mustache from this photo taken in the late 80s. 🙂

I also visited the gravesite of Chief Sealth, which, given his prominence the city of Seattle was named after him. I’d never visited this place before and was glad to be able to do so.

More soon!

More of the final few days of 2023 . . . . I noticed that just traveling further north only 5 hours shows in the amount of daylight that lights up the day. In the Seattle area the sun would set a good twenty minutes earlier than in Eugene. Fortunately, we have passed the marks in which the daylight hours are shrinking. On the 3rd of January we had our latest sunrise. On December 9th we had our earliest sunset. Now the sun is setting later and will begin rising earlier. This is all good for my vitamin D catcher and spirit.

14,410 feet high, Mt. Rainier stands above it all. It is always good to see it out.

Rolling Bay is a small shop and nursery on Bainbridge close to where my in-laws live. It’s a nice walk up there and they’ve all kinds of good items.

Including a batch of sweatshirts and hoodies with various animals and farm implements.

More to come!