Pacific Northwest

Valentine’s Day

Sunday was perfect. A friend fed us fresh baked biscuits and jam for breakfast, we went for a walk through the market and shot some pictures, stopped for fish and chips at the beach, then went for cupcakes. We had made no plans for Valentine’s Day and really, it could not have been better.

Review & Giveaway: Westport Weekend

Disclaimer: Our stay at Vacations by the Sea and our dinner at the Half Moon Bay Bar & Grill were comped.

I did not think that I was stressed out, but nothing will help a person unwind quite so fast as a view of the ocean. While I am very much a land creature — I get seasick — I love the ocean with my whole heart. I love the way it smells, I love watching the surf, I love it when a beach is covered in thick white fog and when the sand is so hot it bakes you completely when you stretch out on it. I’m crazy for the coast and think the Pacific the grandest of sights. As much as I love living on Puget Sound, I still dream that one day I will live where I can walk to the Pacific and stand on the edge of that great vast water that reaches out all the way across the globe.

Westport Winter Sunset


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Crabby

“I fished crab until last year, I got injured, my eye,” says the muddy guy at the turnout above the beach. “But hey, go down to the pier and wait for the boats to come in. You’ll get a whole crab for six — maybe eight bucks from those guys.” He points at a boat …


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Raymond, Washington

Added to Photo Friday on Delicious Baby.

Sweethearts of the Rodeo

They were heading out of The Popcorn Factory while we were heading in — one of the girls almost backed into me. I asked them if I could take their picture and they were sweet as pie about it. “What do you have to do to become a rodeo princess?” I asked. “You have to …


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What We Ate

Country House, Toledo, Washington: “I want to stop at the EAT, you know the one? Plus, for ages, I have wanted to take a picture of that dilapidated ice cream cone thing. You know?” If you drive up and down I5 in Washington, you know exactly the place I mean. Well, blinded by hunger, we …


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