Just call it luck when the best performers come from one’s own backyard.
Touch, listen and learn. The Saratoga Chamber Orchestra invites patrons to join a magic carpet ride of music with its “Meet the Orchestra,” the opener of the orchestra’s new season.
Student musicians from across South Whidbey will present their annual Creepy Concert on Friday, Oct. 28 in the Langley Middle School auditorium. The seventh/eighth grade band, the LMS Jazz Band and the South Whidbey High School Wind Ensemble will perform spooky hits from the past and groovy tunes for the future.
Filmmakers and whale experts will be on hand at the Clyde Theatre later this month as the movie house screens the documentary “The Whale” — the story of Luna, the young male orca who found his way solo to Nootka Sound in British Columbia, where he adopted some humans as his “pod.”
Enter this zone of mayhem at your own risk.
Theatrics in painting and hip hopping rabbits.
They suddenly appeared last week, by the hundreds; from small enough to hold in one hand to huge, round whoppers; all of them a beautiful bright orange.
The Langley Library is looking good.
Local painter Karin Bolstad displays her show of mixed-media acrylic paintings, “The New Normal: Chapters,” at Prima Bistro in Langley through December.
The French post-impressionist master Paul Cezanne said it took him 40 years to figure out that painting was not sculpture.
Have you noticed those large stick nests atop tall phone poles along Highway 525? There are two between Freeland and Greenbank. Each time I drive by, I crane my neck to pick out the occupants, large birds of prey called Ospreys. They are dark chocolate brown birds with white breasts and smallish white heads.
The pumpkins will be plump and the gourds, ginormous. That’s the hope for the 16th annual Whidbey Island Giant Pumpkin Contest, coming Saturday, Oct. 8 at Coupeville’s HarvestFest.
Remember when eggs were on the “poison” list, condemned as potential killers?
