Baby Island – The Life and Times of a Small Place
Whidbey Islander Paul Shapiro has created a contemplative piece about Baby Island – a very small place.
BABY ISLAND The Life And Times Of A Small Place from Paul Shapiro on Vimeo.
Whidbey Islander Paul Shapiro has created a contemplative piece about Baby Island – a very small place.
BABY ISLAND The Life And Times Of A Small Place from Paul Shapiro on Vimeo.
In twenty or so years on Whidbey, I’d never taken the bus north. Typical American, I’m tied to my car. But this trip I was headed for Coupeville and the Penn Cove Water Festival, a celebration of native culture, maritime history and care of resources. Driving my blue beast of a truck, with its oil…
Ditching the nautilus lamp idea … I found the perfect light to hang above the bronze octopus table that everyone knows I want for my birthday later this month. I love octopi. This was featured on one of my favorite interior design blogs – Bohemian Hellhole – how I covet that name. Not only am…
Getting to Paradise Requires Steering Early in our relationship with Sunshine, back in the grubby days of fall 2012, when we were fairing her keel and getting ready to paint her bottom, Tom admitted one day that he thought the rudder was overly stiff. I didn’t want to hear it, I just wanted to slap…
As I was driving home from work tonight a strand of frothy cloud stretched the length of Whidbey Island. At either end it joined into a massive cloud bank. Watching these clouds I flashed back to another atmospheric display over Stonehenge last month. A rainstorm had chased us all the way from Montacute to Stonehenge….
What do you bring home from the beach? Driftwood is lovely to sit on at the beach, but it isn’t something I haul home to install in my living spaces. My marine decor items are smaller. a matched set of rocks some antique bottles found while scuba diving, a bronze compass rose, the points of…
Beginner’s Water No matter where you go or what you study, it’s best to have a home base or a benchmark. So the second year of Tidal Life begins with an introduction to how to Whidbey Island, the place it all started. Whether living on Whidbey or visiting, water is the number one consideration. Water…