Relaxed Saturday afternoon

After going to 2 more Lavender Farms on Saturday morning we spent a relaxed Sat afternoon finding our way to a U-pick farm not on the tour that had acres and acres of Blueberries, Blackberries, raspberries, Logan berries and Strawberries as well as acres of golden wheat and lavender. The wind all day was tremendous gusting to about 35 MPH so it made the 70 degrees feel much cooler. The raspberries were about 4 times the size of ours and the blueberries were like small marbles. All were staked and trellised up with drip irrigation. We could smell the acres of ripe strawberries in the field. What amazed us was that not a bird was to be seen in this 50+ acres. We heard bird sounds but no birds had been pecking at the berries. We later found a 4 sided speaker hooked to an auto battery with a bird guard device. The random calls of crows and other birds carried throughout the fields. There was also a metal crow swinging high from a post above the fields.

Later that afternoon we took our car back to our favorite of the 8 lavender farms we had visited and enjoyed their music and taking late afternoon pictures in their fields. The curved rows seen below were taken at that farm. The evening we could not get into all the 'popular' restaurants in town because of the long wait but found an older place called The Mariner which with it's turquoise colored booths took us back to the 60's. The seafood was great and plentiful and the homemade cream and berry pies were delicious. The coconut cream piece we had was almost one quarter of a pie. We finished the evening sitting huddled up watching 2 venues of the Jazz in the Alley before heading back to our Sequim headquarters to pack all the stuff we had bought and our clothes into the 2 carryon bags that we each had brought. I don't recommend it, as I nearly got a hernia lifting our carry-on bags up into the overhead bins on the plane! If not for the flight attendant's ability to slam the bin, I might have been sitting on my bag.