Richard and Wende House Pix

Richard and Wende's House Pix

We moved from a studio apartment in San Francisco into our 4-bedroom "beach house" in May 1998. It's located on the heavily-forested western shore of Puget Sound, adjacent to Bainbridge Island, on a scenic tidal channel named Agate Passage. The closest town (10 miles away) is Poulsbo, quaint, historic, and famous for its bread. The local area of Suquamish ("place of clear salt water") is a Native American reservation, birthplace of Chief Seattle (1786-1866), after whom the nearby "Emerald City" of Seattle was named. Fresh clams, oysters and crabs can be collected here at low tide, and salmon and other fish are plentiful in season.	The deck and garden at Suquamish, summer of '98
The back garden (view from the BBQ pit)	View over boat-shed and Puget Sound, towards North Seattle. Our newly-planted herb garden (bottom left) is now thriving!
Upstairs dining room: view across Agate Passage	Wende enjoying herself on the back lawn
The front entrance and fruit trees, as seen from the driveway	The hot tub overlooking Agate Passage
View across Puget Sound to the Cascade Mountains (North East)	Sundeck view looking East to Agate Point on Bainbridge Island