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Thanksgiving 2021 marked a return to gatherings of family and friends for a traditional feast. We were delighted to celebrate at Karl’s and Michelle’s with their family and our long time friends Keith and Kathy who had celebrated so many Thanksgivings with us through the years.
We invite you to join us in this holiday event, and hope that your Thanksgiving was a good one this year.
The traditional Thanksgiving gathering of the Olson clan in homes located from Richmond Beach to North Bend changed in the years prior to 2020. In 2018 we celebrated the day with Michelle’s parents in Port Angeles and in 2019, a dear friend and Standing Rock neighbor, Karen, planned a festive Thanksgiving day at Mary’s Standing Rock home together with Karl’s and Michelle’s family, Paul, Michelle’s parents Jan and Dave, several friends and vizlas and one golden retriever.
Tia, a spirited, beautiful, sensitive Arabian mare, fascinated and challenged me, then became one of my dearest friends during several altogether too short years. This post is a tribute to this marvelous creature that through the generosity of Mary, the support of Lorelie, and the coaching of MegAnn joined the many animals that have been a significant part of my life.
HORSE SEASONS III – TIME WITH TIA – By Tim Olson Read More »
Beneath a northwest stormy sky, Cathy offers us a poem with questions about what the stars might know about us.
Cathy Ross – POET – “QUESTIONS FOR THE STARS” Read More »
We began buying “art” at the beginning of our marriage, for our first small house. At that time, we bought large mass-produced and affordable pieces, just to put something on bare walls. Over time we began to develop our taste and knowledge by attending art museums and galleries, and our homes and budget increased in
HARBOR HOME I – ART AT HOME – By Lorelie Olson Read More »
Given cats’ idiosyncrasies, we have often looked at our cats and wondered, “Why. are you so special?”
In this post, we watch our cats watching us! It’s fun!
COZY CATS V -CATS ON WATCH – By Lorelie & Tim Olson Read More »
In 1955 when I first fished with Severin on a troller and watched the Addington salmon trap during August, the corporations owned the salmon traps and and the seiners caught what was left over in the inside waters and fished the ocean where traps wouldn’t last in the swells and storms.
With Alaska statehood in 1959, the traps, were banned and the corporations competed for the most successful seining skippers to fish for them in the effort to keep the canneries profitable. The salmon traps had depleted the fish runs and the seiners competed for the salmon still returning to Southeast Alaska and to rivers further down the West Coast.
The west coast of the Alaska islands bordering the Pacific Ocean not only had pink salmon returning to Southeast Alaska streams but sockeye and chinook salmon migrating to rivers down the west coat of Canada and Washington.
These were exciting times in the fishing industry
SALMON SUMMERS X – FISHING TOUGH ON THE OCEAN – By Tim Olson Read More »
Diverse feelings accompany the coming of the fall season. After a growing time for plants comes the harvest, after the greens of summer come the colors of fall, after the heat of summer comes the cool of fall, after the lingering sunsets of summer come the rapid onsets of darkness. How are you and I to feel about fall? Perhaps feelings are similar to the weather that can change from sunny to stormy within a few hours.
Keith’s photography and the selected poems embrace the variety of feelings of fall.
KEITH OLSON – PHOTOGRAPHER – SERIES V – FALLING LEAVES & SELECTED FALL POEMS Read More »
During the years of my caring for horses I found that often our friends anticipated spending time with the horses. Horses are social and curious animals. While we might enjoy a cup of tea with friends the ponies will gladly share a carrot or two. They might greet a gathering with a whinny or add a snuffle or two, mostly they are attentive participants and eager for a stroke or two in the right places. If time permits, they might like to go for a stroll or maybe even a ride around the property.
HORSE SEASONS II – VISITING WITH HORSES – By Tim Olson Read More »
Riding on a ferry often gives us the feeling of leaving where we’ve been and going somewhere different and separated from what disappears in the ferry’s wake. Cathy’s “Crossing Over” is a companion piece to Lorelie’s Whidbey Island visit post. While Lorelie is visiting another’s home, the poet is returning home. Tim
Cathy Ross – POET – “CROSSING OVER” Read More »
