SIGNS OF AUTUMN

 FORAGED CHANTERELLES

 THE PORT TOWNSEND FILM FESTIVAL

 

SEATING FOR THE OUTDOOR MOVIE

Wooden Boat Festival and John Steinbeck's "Western Flyer"

                               Early morning on the first day of Port Townsend's best festival.  

The Western Flyer,  the boat that John Steinbeck and Ed "Doc" Ricketts took to Baja California and whose journey was chronicled in "The Log from the Sea of Cortez" had been at the bottom of the Puget Sound for some time and is now being restored here.   Have a look.........

 There was some very nice paella served, too!

                        A perfect ending to the festival with a glass of wine on the Vito Dumas

Port Townsend BOUNTY!

What a gift to be able to partake in the abundance of beautiful and delicious gems that emerge from our gardens and waters.

Other treasures nearby: Sequim farms and Coopeville dining

It's time to harvest the lavender at Jardin du Soleil..........

.....and to paint it

There's a great restaurant across the water from Port Townsend;  just a ferry ride away is the Oystercatcher in Coopeville

oh my, I guess we ate most of it.  It was our appetizer of sweetbreads and mussels from the waters of Penn Cove, right out the window