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Our Studio in Port Townsend
Where IS Port Townsend?
Port Townsend Washington is on the Olympic Peninsula,
about 40 miles northwest of Seattle.
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Nearby Chimacum Creek Estuary at low tide. Opposite, the same spot at high tide.
The Lodge
Spring cherry trees and pink-flowering current in bloom in the meadow at "The Lodge," an all-natural red-cedar house. For us, who frequent old National Park lodges, we appreciate the honestly of this place.
Cherries and Currents in bloom. It's Spring!
Front porch of the Lodge. Many parts of this place remind us of the landscape design work of Jens Jensen, who designed around nature instead of over it.
Gettin' the Job Done!
The Library of the main house. Here's Nancy researching species for a nature guide.
* The partners of artists never get enough credit for what they do, but Larry will say unequivocally that it takes two people working full time to make all this work. We know of few single artists that are successful in America, and for good reason, there simply isn't enough time to do it all. In many ways, Nancy is the most important part of Larry Eifert's paintings.
Fall's collection from seven apple trees
Nancy in the Columbia Gorge. See her photo album here. Then come back!
1939 Sea Witch in a race off Port Townsend.
Sea Witch has her own website section. Click here and see it.
Our Home and Studio
We live next to the mouth of the Chimacum Creek Estuary on Port Townsend Bay - so we called our business, Estuary Press. This photo shows a rare snow in December 2000 at the same location very close to the house. It doesn't snow often. When it does it's a pause to celebrate.
This is the same location as the photo on the left, only it was taken at high tide, with the freshwater creek coming in just around the bend upstream. Port Townsend Bay is downstream (behind the camera). Both chum and coho salmon spawn here in pretty good numbers,(1000 chum in 2005) thanks to lots of community help.
Hilton Avenue! Now when you see the address you'll wonder just who had such grandiose ideas. Paris? Now SHE might live on a trashy dirt road too!
At work in the studio -
"Chaos" always applies in the upstairs studio of the barn. It always looks worse than it is, but how does anyone paint sixteen projects at once and keep a tidy work space? After all these years, I'm here to tell you it can't be done - at least not by me!
Nancy's garden
We have an orchard of apples and cherry trees, and the meadow creates a pretty warm environment. The garden flourishes - so much so, that it seems always out of control. Still, fresh strawberries and organic greens make it worthwhile. And a six-foot deer fence keeps out most of the critters.
Columbian Black-tailed Deer looking for apples.
They get some - we get some!
One of Nancy's photographs of her garden nastursiums. Must look incredibly exotic to a bee!
See her photo album here. Then come back!
The Sea Witch - 1939 Monk sloop
You can't live in Port Townsend without owning a wooden boat (it's the wooden boat center for the West Coast, after all) and we have several.
Sea Witch is 29' 7" long and draws 4' 6". She has a 4/5 fractional rig, something pretty new in 1939. There's a little four-cylinder gas engine under the cockpit that handles her fine in harbors, and plenty of space in that big cockpit for guests. An enclosed head, a galley with an old converted propane stove finishes out the accommodations. And she sails like a "witch."
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Sea Witch - Wooden Boat Festival, 2002.
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