A Day Trip to Port Gamble...

I celebrated my 47th birthday

over the weekend...

Birthdays in December are always kind of meshed

with Christmas festivities,

so I usually like to get away for a quiet day trip...

we headed Northwest

to the usually sleepy town

of Port Gamble,  WA...

population 916...

the town dates back to the mid 1850's

and is like stepping into Old New England...

Charming with a capital C...

this grand Victorian building

is the center of town...

it was a cold and stormy day,

the waters of the Puget Sound

rough and choppy...

the sky so moody,

looking back at my pictures

 it looks like they were all taken over several different days,

a blue sky here a black sky there...

in the beginning,

 I said a usually sleepy town,

because we were surprised to see how much

 the town had changed since our last visit,

 ten or so years ago...

main street was dappled in a hand full of cute little shops...

and they were hosting a Christmas celebration...

I did a little window shopping...

and caught a glimpse of the "Big Guy" himself...

the quaint cemetery on the hill,

is the most peaceful I have ever visited...

Gustave Englebrecht was buried here,

 the first U.S. Navy Sailor to die in the Pacific,

he died on the city's shores

 in the Indian War of 1855-56...

see

 a blue sky!

I am joining...

Outdoor Wednesday

Thanks for joining me today...