A quick trip to Whidbey Island

Early last week, Miz Becky decided that we needed to get the heck out of Dodge, uh, Seattle, and began feverishly making plans for us to head out for a Quick Romantic Getaway. She eventually settled on the very nice Boatyard Inn, in Langley. When the Boatyard Inn says that they "offer the beach and the sea at your doorstep", they ain't kidding -- as the tide came in, I wasn't entirely sure we weren't going to float away.

As we often do on these little trips, Miz Becky and I had intense discussions about whatever it is that's bothering either or both of us this days -- work, in both of our cases, this time -- which ends up wiping us out enough to let us actually relax some.

And as I always do when I relax, I wandered around taking very formalist photos of whatever random things caught my eye. No plan, just pattern and design.