i’m home, but not really here. i’m still somewhere on lummi island. roaming through the tall trees, walking along legoe bay, watching the eagles, and always. always. keeping one eye on the great white watcher – mt. baker. the pacific northwest cast a great spell, like a net, over me. i’m already plotting how to get back. lummi island is magic. i might say that about everywhere i go because it’s easy to fall in love with places when you have a serious case of wanderlust, but i mean it. pure magic. the kind they write stories about. that you dream about. that you want to be real. that kind.
anyway. here’s some of my travel journal.
i may have found the perfect travel journal of all time.
on the morning we left the island a thick shelf of fog hovered over the island.
hope you’re good in your worlds. see you soon!
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Mt. Baker. Swoon! My. Rainier is its twin sibling and the one who silently watched over me as I grew up in a small town in Rainier’s shadow. The First Nation people’s name for Rainier is Tahoma, which translates to “the mountain that was God.” Perfection!
XO
Thank you for sharing your vacation. Your photos are always beautiful. Since I live on the east coast, I’ll never get to Lummi island. I’d never heard of it before! You’re forever the teacher…
Have you read Mink River by Brian Doyle? It takes place on the Oregon coast, but I think you would LOVE it, especially while under the spell of Lummi Island. Incredible, evocative writing about a specific place, its climate, animals, people.
I so love your photos from the island! I mean, what color even IS that sky in the top one? Beautiful, and love the road too. You got out of here just in time. It is supposed to be in the 90’s and might even break 100 in a few places this week! Hep me!!! Although, it is always cooler up where you were near the water and farther north.
I am still debating on when the best time to take the class would be. For me it might make a nice pastime for the colder, rainier weather. Oh well, I have a few days left to decide. It looks amazing,no matter when I do it. It is generous of you to still share some of it on your blog🙂
We find the Pacific NW, particularly the islands, very enchanting, too. We’ve taken two vacations there in recent years. Nothing draws you like that water and the mountains, islands and wildlife. I worked on my first book for Stitchbookery all afternoon and I’m pleased with the progress, though I need more small ephemera, so I have to do more scrounging for that. Will post in time… Thanks for another fun class!