There's more on the art show Gary was describing
at http://news.bellinghamherald.com/stories/20020717/LocalState/107479.shtml

It closes Sunday at 5.

It was in Kent before coming up here, and we even had our local astronaut
show up (Pinkie Nelson, now a prof at WWU).


At 08:01 PM 7/19/02 -0700, you wrote:

>Dear Tweets,
>
>Today my family and I did a combination art-museum and birding trip. Where
>is such a thing possible? Blaine!
>
>WARNING: THIS PARAGRAPH IS NOT ABOUT BIRDS, BUT ABOUT THE ART EXHIBIT:
>There are five railroad cars (yes, railroad cars) full of artwork at a
>siding right by the bay there near Peace Arch. The artwork is about NASA's
>space program. It is a free exhibit (donation requested). They have a
>Warhol, a Norman Rockwell, a Peter Max, and a lot of other cool art, some
>of which is very sixties. Kids get to do a scavenger hunt. They also have
>a museum car where you get to spend money.
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>BIRD PARAGRAPH: Then you walk down to the little park with the orca
>statues and bird! We happened to be there around four in the afternoon,
>which was a perfect shorebird tide. Now, I have always resolutely ignored
>tide charts, because I have often found shorebirds during "wrong" tides
>and missed them during "right" tides. Still, Blaine shorebirding is poor
>if the tide is wrong, so you might want to check your tables. The exhibit
>is on all weekend. Today there were Western Sandpipers, unidentified
>yellowlegs (I had no scope), a Spotted Sandpiper, a lot of Killdeer,
>around ten Semipalmated Plover, two Caspian Terns, a California Gull, tons
>of Glaucous-winged Gulls (and some hybrid-looking ones) and even a House Finch!
>
>Let's get enthusiastic here!
>
>Yours truly,
>
>Gary Bletsch
>
>Mount Vernon, WA
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