By Nick Wilder
My father was a school teacher at Brooks School in Massachusetts. We spent summers on a small island off the Maine coast. I still enjoy visiting the island every summer and catching up with old friends. This summer Keven and I also attended the wedding of a nephew on Orcas Island 100 miles north of Seattle and only a couple of miles from Blakley Island which was recently featured in a Classic Chicago article by Libbet Richter. The first stop on our western adventure was Seattle where we enjoyed the sights and smells of Pike Place Market.
Sunrise through a widow screen at Grey Havens Hotel in Georgetown, Maine
Rockport Harbor
Two sailboats and a duck
Lighthouse at the entrance to Rockport Harbor, Maine
Sunset on Islesboro Island, Maine
Interior of Pike Place Market in Seattle
Pike Place Market is known for fish throwing. Here’s a fishmonger getting ready to throw.
Yours truly saved by a good catch.
Photos taken on the car ferry from Anacortes to Orcas Island.
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Scenes from Orcas Island
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The sales booth for whale watching excursions
Pizza making crew at a wedding party
Wedding guests
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He’s the life of the party
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How about those wedding boots
Father accompanies daughter to her wedding ceremony
The ceremony high above the Pacific was briefly interrupted when the bride saw Orca whales breaching below us.
