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Breakfast the other morning was 99% fresh from the backyard: eggs, red potatoes, garlic, miner's lettuce, nasturtium flowers, rosemary, sage, oregano, thyme... everything but the black pepper and sea salt. Somedays, all the work really pays off!
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Two young men look out over Libbey Beach.
Above: Rick on the ferry to from Port Townsend to Whidbey Island. Below: We met a few of my family members at a beach house rental. This is the view of Puget Sound from the back deck. (Click on the below panorama to expand it.)
Our fourth cousin Peggy showed us this house where our great-great grandparents, Thomas Nunan and Elizabeth McCrohan, lived before there was an addition in back. It must have been one room downstairs and one upstairs, where they raised their 12 children (a few died very young). Peggy talked her way inside and we got to look around.
We spent a day at the family cemetery in Oak Harbor for a potluck reunion and semiannual meeting about cemetery business. The site is for decedents of Nunan, Davis, Morse, O'Leary, & McCrohan - the original Irish pioneer families of 1858. My family are decedents of both Nunan and McCrohan.
After the reunion, we headed to the northernmost tip of the island, Deception Pass, where a bridge connects to the mainland.
We spent the rest of the day checking out beaches, sunsets, and wheat fields with farms.
Whidbey Island between the wheat fields and the coast along Ebey's Landing. (Click on the above panorama to expand it.)
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Arianna Helen