poplar road

Our annual trip to Marrowstone Island to celebrate Canada Day and July 4th with the Lunds and friends was absolutely gorgeous this year. The weather was perfect, there was more than enough fresh crab in the pots for the July 4th seafood boil, and we were joined by several friends we’d met there over the years but hadn’t seen in a while. On the usual outing to Port Townsend, Richard and I found some bright shiny things in the local cookware shop, I found a great gardening book at the used bookstore, and I picked up another expansion for my favourite board game, Carcassonne. The rest of the time, like every other year, was devoted to the leisurely enjoyment of food, sunlight, sea air, games, campfires, fireworks, and great friends. Saranda, Alston, Brooke and I went on a long beach walk, and they found all sorts of things in the intertidal sand for me to photograph. I don’t think I took the camera out once after that first morning – as usual, too busy relaxing to take pictures! But I’m rather pleased with these, partly because it was reassuring to find so much sea life thriving.