Dungeness Crab Banner in Warrenton

In my Starbucks post, I pointed out the crab banner barely visible outside the window, and I said I'd get a photo of it sometime. Yes, that day is today! I can't say I know much about the banner, except that several of them brighten the edge of the parking lot on the Warrenton side of the Young's Bay Bridge. We have an annual Crab and Seafood Festival, and Dungeness crabs are a favorite around here, so I think the banners are simply to help "brand" our area and enliven the edge of the parking lot. They serve the purpose very well, and they make me smile. If anyone knows more, please comment on the post.

Young's Bay is below the sight line between here and the horizon, which is the Astoria peninsula. As you can see, we're enjoying some blue sky for a change.

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Kicking Back

Across the Young's Bay Bridge from Astoria is the town of Warrenton, and the first thing you find there is a shopping center. It's not a mall, but the closest approximation we have to one. I enjoy buying locally in locally-owned stores, but sometimes the shopping center is as convenient as it is dull, and sometimes I shop here because it has what I'm looking for that I can't find in town. (There is, by the way, no mall in Astoria proper, and I'm just as happy about that.)

At the end of a long day, I sometimes like to kick back in Starbucks' anonymous and predictable lounge, sip a predictable drink, and open an unpredictable book. That's my red backpack in the lower left corner of the photo and the arm of my easy chair in the lower right. Outside the window you can just see a banner made up of four Dungeness crabs, which are caught in the waters here. The banners line the edge of the otherwise-featureless parking lot. I like them. Sometime I'll take their picture in better light. At the moment, I'm just relaxing.

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