A Stroll Through Winslow

 

7/14/26 Mt. Baker from Seattle-to-Bainbridge ferry

On the last day visiting friends Cathy and Bettina were in town, we decided we didn’t get enough ferry riding the day before; we took a different ferry to Winslow on Bainbridge Island. (According to several Instagram travel influencers who fell into my feed, riding a ferry is a quintessential, must-do Seattle summer thing. Indeed!)

Enjoying a leisurely brunch on the Streamliner Diner’s porch, strolling through Winslow’s “downtown” (a few blocks long), and popping into charming shops, we were more tourists than sketchers that day. We also visited the Bainbridge History Museum and Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, both of which are free every day. The latter currently has a retrospective show by Carletta Carrington Wilson that especially moved me.

I made only two sketches that day: One was of a huge “retort” (vessel) from the turn of the 20^th century that was used to transport toxic creosote (below). Easily wide enough in diameter for people to walk through and read the placards inside, the retort is a permanent exhibit outside the Bainbridge History Museum.

Creosote retort and a card from  Blackbird Bakery, 
where we all indulged in delish chocolate chip cookies.

The second sketch was of Mt. Baker from the ferry to Bainbridge (above). While not visible from Seattle, Baker is often visible from Edmonds, but I never did catch it from the beach during Sketcher Fest. It makes a nice pairing with the sketch I had made of Mt. Rainier from the Edmonds ferry the day before.