Showing posts with label around the block and back. Show all posts
Showing posts with label around the block and back. Show all posts

Saturday, August 29, 2009

More Shots Around Town


We have just had the best summer - I thought I'd show you around Bellingham a little.

This is one of the murals in town - click on it and biggify it so you can see it better - it is really fun.






This is the old court house that now houses our Museum of History - you can see it from out on the bay - it sits on a ledge over looking the waterfront.

Since I was in a hurry and too lazy to get out of my car, you only get to see part of the building - but it is one of my favorite landmarks in town.

It has a wonderful rotunda on the second floor where they hold concerts - great acoustics -








Unfortunately, the old museum is small and they had to have several locations to house the different areas of interest - so they have built this new museum - just a few blocks away. I think they are going to keep the business offices in the old building.





And of course, my favoritest store down town is our LYS (otherwise known as Local Yarn Store) Northwest Handspun Yarns. Nancy and the gals who work for her are the best. This is where I took my spinning class and where I got the fiber for Sophia's sweater. They have all kinds of cool things through those doors, including their shop cat, Miss Knitty.

Thanks for coming with me while I took a little trip downtown.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Around town -


This lovely bit of "yard art" is at a house I've been watching on my way home over the past few years. First they took out ALL their lawn, then put in lots of beds and berms. This past spring they added this charming bit of art to their fence. (if you click to biggify it, you can barely see that they have some hens & chicks in the basket of the bike - cute)