Memorial

I recently came across a beautiful chair in our Community Park.  It was made in memory of Jesse Travis.  I never knew Jesse, just that he was killed in car-crash near our home shortly after we moved to Whidbey Island.
I think Jesse left so many people bereft of his presence because I saw this memorial in the park and his gravestone in the Langley Woodsmen cemetery.  The carved chair has a wooden book draped over the arm so I imagine Jesse was a big reader or at least loved to be read to.
Whidbey is such a caring place (my experience is of South Whidbey), most transplants here feel they've been called to contribute in some way.  My way is to record what I see and ask you to look thru my eyes at the beautiful world that surrounds us even if it is touched by sadness.

Keeping busy sketching Violas on a quiet day at Whidbey Art Gallery

Little park oasis - a memorial to one of Whidbey's lost young.