Now that we’ve picked a time and place, either Brendan helps us with a general announcement to his liking or we pick up the locals ourselves by watching for their posts. This is really our party until ROS responds. I’m gonna send them a map teaser.

There’s a great deli in old Anacortes six minutes from the ferry dock. I have to remeber it’s name.

Wouldn’t it be funny if a huge crowd showed up in Anacortes from all over? Jammed SeaTac airport?

Stay tuned for more details

I posted an aside to CCM, but he hasn’t shown up here. Should we do more of that?

And I’ll work on that map for a bit, then send it by snail mail. Somewhere on the site they say ‘extra points’ for snail mail.

Either of you want to propose a (catchy) name for this meetup? We ARE trawling.

re: babu: “An ROS meet-up in Anacortes. How FUN. I wonder if we could get Brendan to announce this? We should send him a funny map of our routes. ”

good ideas!

If you got the 11:10 ferry out of Friday Harbor and we got the 11:15 ferry from P.T. to Keystone we’d get to the Anacortes dock about 1:30-ish, depending on Nikos’ driving. I’d have to get the 7:55 ferry to Bainbridge to be safe.

I just left an aside for CCM. I had no idea he/she was nearby. There is somebody posting from Mukilteo, but I can’t remember who. Other (regular) NW OSers I’ve picked up are myotis evotis; jboylan; David White; joel; Bicoaster; richards1052; j martinstein; jadams; NineInchNachos. More?

My laptop has almost as many miles on the Vespa as I do, so yes.

An ROS meet-up in Anacortes. How FUN. I wonder if we could get Brendan to announce this? We should send him a funny map of our routes.

Babu: I can bring images on a disc if you bring a laptop.

peggysue and Nikos: name some days of the week and weeks you’re thinking about. The 3rd week of April is out for me. May is better.

peggysue: can you possibly bring something of your art with you so we can see more of it? I have a digital portfolio I lug around in my laptop…..

Let me know how this sounds, and I’ll scout out a rendezvous point along 104, and then report it back here.
Finally, I’m usually able to juggle my schedule fairly easily. So, you two pick the date and time, and I’ll only dissent if it (improbably) isn’t appropriate for me.
See ya.
And Happy Spring!

Anybody listening to this must think we live in some alternate universe. Folks, we’re talking about the island archipeligo which is the southernmost tip of the Alaska panhandle. It just happens to terminate off the coast of Washington state. Some people think it’s the cultural continuation of the coast of Maine. That is, Seattle is to the San Juans as Boston is to the coast of Maine. Another convergence.

Babu: just looked at your Westcott Bay pic. That looks like a giant project and the convergent circle again! I can’t say I place it but I can imagine where it might be.

I just uploaded my Westcott bay pic.

Or here’s another idea. peggysue, do you know the folks at San Juan Canvas–the sail loft over by the U.S. Customs office in the F.H. harbor? They know every boat that goes across. No names here, but tell them you’re trying to get to P.T. to meet their Seattle landscape architect friend. They love connecting people, esp on the water. Then, if we just picked a time and place we could all just show up….and maybe be surprised by anyone else reading this. Just a thought.

Nikos: Friday Harbor is quite a bit like PT kinda quaint & kinda touristy though we have lots of bourgeoisie development going on now. PT might be more quaint and FH more touristy. I went through PT summer before last on my way to the Bangor navy base for a Hiroshima day protest. I love to imagine the view you describe but I’m not so sure I could keep up with you! You run every day and I’d probably run if I were being chased by a Grizzley Bear but I confess it is not a usual practice of mine. I filled out the stuff on my profile page when I first signed up to blog. I just dashed off my most basic stuff. Any image that you have on your computer you should be able to load onto your profile page. If a relative/friend sent you a picture via email you could use that or you could probably download the fuzzy picture of you at the meet up from the OS page onto your computer and then load it onto your profile page. But hey, what’s 30 years? We could put our high school graduation pictures (or baby pictures) up on our profiles.

babu: The Westcott Bay Sculpture Garden is just outside the Roche Harbor gate and used to be a big open field. Its on Roche property so it wouldn’t be where your landscape design was. So many new people have moved to the Island I no longer know everybody the way I used to but wonder if I might know some of your friends?

I do think it would be fun to have a local get together. I would just need plenty of future notice to go anywhere because I work at the bookstore most days and my car is strictly an “Island car”.

My Westcott Bay project was a landscape design +/_ 12 yrs ago for a new home which was then sold and I’ve heard that the new owners did something completely different to it. So I don’t know if it became the sculpture park you mentioned. I’ll upload the concept sketch for my Westcott Bay design later tonight, and when you’ve had a look at it I’ll put the Belltown Park back, so the thread is intact for others who might come after.

That said, Nikoa and peggysue; maybe we should think about a meet-up. Nikos, I was at the Seattle show also. (Short blonde with a motorcycle jacket and helmet.) I couldn’t make it to the sit-down the next day because I came down with the flu that morning. Hope you and anyone else didn’t get it from me….

Next, I wanted to say, in reply to your posts in the ‘On Forums’ thread, that until I clicked to view your painting, I didn’t know we had ‘profile pages’! Imagine my surprise to find one for me, too. How in the world do you decide what to say (to reveal about yourself!) on a profile page? Let alone what to use as an illustration that somehow characterizes you?
Wow, I’m boggled.
Intrigued, but boggled.
And lucky for me, since I don’t have a digital camera, my only digital images that I might be able to upload onto a profile page is something a friend digitalized, from 30 years ago.
Got any guidance for me?
Thanks, neighbor!

Babu: Yep, I’m in Friday Harbor. Would your work perchance be in the Westcott Bay Sculpture Garden?

Nikos: Are you in Port Townsend? Believe me I know the ferries aren’t cheap. One reason why I so rarely get off this rock.