In early November last year, Lori saw photos online of trees with beautiful red leaves at the John Wayne Marina in Sequim, a town less than an hour away. We headed there the next day to enjoy the autumn colors and get in some photography. It was an overcast, rainy day in Port Ludlow but we decided to go anyway. Port Ludlow is on the edge of the Olympic Rain Shadow, so we get less rain than Seattle and other nearby areas. Sequim is dead center in the rain shadow, they get even less rain than we do so we took a chance on better weather. It was still overcast when we got to Sequim, but no rain. The trees weren’t as full as the pictures Lori saw, taken only a two days earlier, but there were still plenty of autumn colors both in the trees and on the ground.
We had lunch inside a restaurant for the first time in nine months. The food was excellent, Lori had a seafood salad while I had tortellini with a cream sauce that was more like a thick chowder. The restaurant seemed COVID safe at first since we were the only patrons. As we were finishing, however, more patrons arrived and were being seated too close to us. We paid and left quickly.
Our day enjoying the autumn colors of John Wayne Marina had come to an end. The rain showed up just as we headed for home.
Sequim https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequim,_Washington
John Wayne Marina https://portofpa.com/186/John-Wayne-Marina
Olympic Rain Shadow
http://www.olympicrainshadow.com/olympicrainshadowmap.html
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