Summer Parks Concert in a new city park (Woodstock Farm)

Woodstock farm is a property the City of Bellingham Parks and Recreation acquired and is now a new public city park.

To learn more about this wonderful place go to this link:

http://www.cob.org/services/recreation/parks-trails/woodstock-farm.aspx.

The buildings are closed and can be used for activities and require a reservation, but the grounds are free to roam and enjoy (as long as it's not being used for a private event).

Map and info. boards for the site.

Sunday (July 1) was the first Summer Concert in the Parks concert at this site.

To see the City's full Summer concert series schedule go to this link: http://www.cob.org/services/recreation/activities/concerts-in-the-park.aspx

It's worth strolling the grounds to see the beautiful plants and trees,
but the real reason we came here today was to enjoy the sites first scheduled concert!
We had a really nice day for it which was great because unlike the rest of the country we here in Whatcom county had been inundated with cloudy, rainy days for most of June.

During the bands intermission the P & R staff did tours of the big house and a walk to the Middens down at the beach access on the property. To learn about Middens go to this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midden

View of the farm from the Midden trail

beach access

Middens (click to enlarge) - Archeological site * Do not disturb

Trail back to the farm from the Middens

The band that performed for todays concert was "Ranger and the Re-Arranger" - (Gypsy Jazz), from Bainbridge Island.
Here's a snippet of what they sounded like:

What a great way to kick off July!

Calf injury anniversary - what a difference a year makes!

It was one year ago this week that I tore my calf muscle. It was a long slow recovery, but I'm happy to say that I ran 10 miles on Saturday and all is well.
Our B'ham fit training run was from Zuanich park on Saturday, as I was running up a hill I saw a large group of walkers coming towards me and was pleasantly surprised to see Djan (her blog: http://djanstewart.blogspot.com/) in their midst. I haven't seen her since I left the Trailblazer hiking group. I yelled a quick "hello", and thought I heard a reply. That was a fun moment during the run. My husband started an hour after me and I met him about 1/2 way back on the return of our route. So another bright spot!
After my run I jumped in the car and drove to Snohomish and picked up my 3 grand daughters and then drove on to Sequim to watch my dad run the North Olympic Discovery marathon. He finished 1st in the 75 & up division. He ran 5 hrs. 42 min.'s and 07 sec.'s. So proud of him and his accomplishments. Here's a link of his run last year with some nice pictures of the course and area -http://hearsdifferentdrummer.blogspot.com/2011/06/my-dad-marathon-man-north-olympic.html
He's also training to run 80 miles on his 80th birthday this coming November. You can read his training blog at this link - http://runningforeighty.blogspot.com/

    Grand daughters Ruby and Skylar running near the finish with my dad!