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Barn House Market in Battle Ground

The Barn House Boys – Joe and Jermonne – host one of the premiere “vintage” markets in the country once each summer, in the “back yard” of their enchanting farm house in rural Battle Ground, Washington. People come from all over to see, buy, eat, drink, listen, play – and to be seen.  It’s quite simply THE place to be…
More photos are also shown on the Battle Ground page…

 

Market

The market, spread out across several acres of  property, included over 30 incredible “vintage” vendors plus food, drinks and a live band.  It was like a county fair but more intimate and special.  Just about everything here was one of a kind.  People lined up to get in so the first hour was a bit of a crush …  All day long you could see people happily hauling their treasures – big and small – back to their cars.

 

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Seabold Vintage Market

Twice a year, Bainbridge has a very special event – an old-fashioned  vintage style flea market held at the historic Seabold Community Hall on the north end of the island.
Liz Le Dorze, who founded “Seabold Vintage Market” in 2009, keeps it intentionally small with just 4-6 additional local vendors in order to maintain a sense of community.

Yesterday’s event was especially remarkable because the sun came out after a week-long deluge allowing vendors to display an array of wares outside.

The next market will be held in the fall.  Remember:  if you want to get the choice pieces, you have to get there early!   Many more photos below…

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Frigid

Actually the Pacific Northwest is anything but frigid. But this morning, with frost encrusting the windows of the  truck and the dogs exhaling long streams of steam as they waited for me to scrape the windows with my pathetic credit card, it actually felt like we were joining the rest of the country’s cold snap.  Maybe it’s just a sympathetic cold…

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Sunday Morning

We don’t have a lot of sun up here in the Pacific Northwest, but we do have some interesting combinations of weather and scenery. While the rest of the country is frozen or under snow, up here everything is verdant, lush, moist, spongy, misty – even sometimes mystical. And it somehow makes the morning coffee taste that much better. Outside, the only sounds are the occasional fog horn, an egret, or perhaps a sea lion.  Or the low rumble of the Bremerton ferry…

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Tomahawk Twilight

Girls in motion at the annual Tomahawk Twilight cross-country invitational. Marysville, Washington.

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Obligatory Flower

Okay, now I’m hunting through the stack to find a “sunset” picture…

Bainbridge Island, February 13.

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Country Comfort

Actually there’s a story behind this.  The feet belong to a baby-sitter and the child is with her in the back of the pickup. Outside the Seabold Vintage Market, which is held on Bainbridge Island four times a year.

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Reflections

Early morning, Green Lake pier, Seattle

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Your ice

“Okay, it’s getting cold in my hand, you can have it now.”

Annual Seattle Mudbug Festival (invitation only)

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Puget Sound

Okay I think this is where the word “majestic” is not over-used. Mt. Rainier and the Bremerton Ferry, viewed from Bainbridge Island.