Wow, it seems like I'm caught in a whirlwind. On Memorial weekend we took the ferry back to San Juan Island with my son Joel and his fiancee Becca to investigate a possible setting for their wedding. Becca spent a couple of quarters in college at the University of Washington Friday Harbor marine station studying pelagic seabirds. She took us on a tour of the station and then we went to Roche Harbor, where she and Joel plan to be married. The weather was glowering and grey all morning, but in the afternoon the sun broke through most beautifully.
After we got home I worked hard all week to prepare for a class I was scheduled to teach this weekend at Gail Harker's Center for Creative Arts in La Conner on immersion dyeing with natural dye extracts. All the fabric for the class had to be scoured and mordanted for the actual teaching part on Saturday and Sunday. It went quite well. I don't usually teach very often, but as it happens, I have another class in ten days. I'm not sure I can keep up the pace.