This is the house where I lived from fourth grade until I left home. It’s in the northwest corner of Washington state—Whatcom County, to be exact. (Since I now live in Pennsylvania, I must add the word “state,” as I’ve discovered the naked word “Washington” always means Washington, D.C.)
Now I live in Pennsylvania with my husband. When our children were mostly grown, we got into boating on Chesapeake Bay. The pictures of our lives changed.
- Sunset
- Dividing Creek
- A Boating Picnic
- Sailing on a chilly day
- Oxford Boat Scene
- Lighthouse
- Fishing Docks
- Visiting birds
We boated on the bay, south on the Intracoastal, and north into Canada’s canals. But we remember Chesapeake Bay. We had a sailboat — Cloud Nine, then a mini-tug cruiser, Ivory Cloud, and finally, a second mini-tug cruiser, Sunset Cloud. We named the last one deliberately, for the sunset of our boating experience. We were then, and still are, land-based, but we enjoyed these pictures in our lives. In fact, I enjoyed it so much, I’ve placed both my mysteries on Chesapeake Bay. I have many pictures and memories to guide my writing.