#Bainbridge Island

[vintagehomecollection]

To preserve the seasonal stream that bisects this tiny lot on Bainbridge Island, Washington, architect Jim Cutler designed a double-width Shaker house on a bridge, that spans the forty-two-foot-wide gulf.

The Naturally Elegant Home, 1992

[nocturnalpicnic]

cannery cove, late fall 2023 water color michael pontieri

[valleyoakphoto]

3-30-24

[pauldavidgibson]

Leaving Bainbridge Island, Heading to Seattle February 2024

[princecupid]

to anyone who's planning to go to bainbridge island and fort ward, be sure to look for the geocache at battery thornburg! i didn't place it originally, but i left a note and a log in the cache for any oxenfree fans to sign, and i'd love for people who love the game to find it! ❤️

and if you find it, feel free to post a picture! i'd love to see it! :)

[millylouedward]

- in the olympic peninsula of northwest washington state, a small town named forks exists under a near-constant cover of clouds.

[timkarr]

The Unsettling Sound

The Puget Sound is an unsettled sea that lies above the tectonically active western edge of the North American Plate. This large body of frigid water is separated from the Pacific Ocean by the Olympic Mountains to its west and the Cascades to its east.

Glaciers crowded into the Sound during the last ice age, advancing from the north. When they retreated some 13,000 years ago they left behind deep deposits of interglacial sediment. These sand and clay remnants, in turn, were carved by frequent rain and sea erosion to form high, unstable coastal bluffs, which were soon blanketed by dense evergreen overgrowths of cedar, hemlock and fir, and undergrowths of alder, blackberry and fern.

As erosion progresses this cover slides from high bluffs in slow cascades that often take decades to complete from hilltop to shore. The process is sped up when the northwest rains are heaviest. Landslides can carry trees and their understory to the beach in an instant. Once arrived on the shore, the upended forest enters the marine ecosystem, where it functions as nutrient, shelter and barrier.

In the last centuries, human structures have been added to this tumult. Houses perched on bluffs afford spectacular views and command high prices, but they face the disturbing prospect of being splayed across the beach following a prolonged downpour. Slides in the Northwest earn frequent headlines, and were even the subject of a popular book and film set on the slopes of Queen Anne Hill.

Much hilltop construction in the area occurs with little immediate awareness of the role erosion plays in maintaining both the geological and biological integrity of the Sound. A common response to the inevitable is to line the bank with black basaltic stones quarried from ancient lava beds. The proliferation of these bulkheads throughout the Puget Sound has resulted in a phenomenon called “shoreline hardening.” According to some government statistics, approximately 30 percent of the Sound’s shoreline is now armored with stone and concrete reinforcements.

This happened along the beach where my family has lived for nearly a century. in the 1970s and 80s, property owners piled stone bulkheads to shore up against sliding —attemtping to fix in time something that’s always in flux.

The results of our obstinance has been devastating. Within years this beach began to lose much of its value. As a child, I can remember clawing a hundred Native Littlenecks from the sand and clay beneath beach rocks. We let these clams sit for a couple of hours in a bucket of seawater. My grandparents taught us to sprinkle in cornmeal so they could spit out stomach sand as they fed. Once full, they were transferred into a steaming pot where they open latticed shells to offer up their tenderness. Today I’m lucky if I find a single Littleneck after 30 minutes of raking.

Whenever I visit the Sound, I think of Susu and Chum, who were privileged to live on this shore and loved what it could yield to any of their grandchildren willing to put some time into it. They left us 20 years ago, and a new generation of family has built modern homes on the foundations of those Susu and Chum left behind. In time, ownership may be handed to successive generations, or we might drift away, passing the beachfront to someone with no memory of what it meant to a family that gathered there. And while the Sound may retain much of its scenic beauty, this too is fleeting. The tides will rise and fall revealing familiar stretches of rocks and sand, again and again, and still something will always remain unsettled until it’s gone.

[seattlefactsijustmadeup]

Seattle Fact #8,937,687:

In 1965 on Bainbridge Island, Washington became the home of the world’s most popular sport. THAT’S RIGHT WE’RE GONNA TALK ABOUT PICKLEBALL!

Pickleball is where you find the roundest cucumber you can, brine it for awhile until it becomes crunchy and salty, and bat it around with a paddle.

[thetwinpeaksblog]

The film location from the "Twin Peaks" pilot where Audrey Horne laughs as the Norwegians leave The Great Northern Hotel. This scene was shot at the Kiana Lodge in Poulsbo, Washington. The location image is from January 22, 2020.

[misandrie]

Green Reflection, Bainbridge Island, Washington

[how-scaandalous]

washington state dump

[christopherflowers]

Bloedel Reserve

[nocturnalpicnic]

After a few days the mountain reappeared 2023 water color michael pontieri

[valleyoakphoto]

Grand Forest

4-5-24

[stephaniestarshine]

[undescribed1mage]

Hello !! Reminder that The Lesser Known Players production of Ride The Cyclone opens(for previews) January 26th !! There is more info about it here !!

If you do go, please get an audio !! They're incredibly easy 2 film and it is really hard 2 get caught with them !!

(Also they have a genderfluid Ricky.)