Kids & grands came up from Seattle, put up this sign & called us outside to see them all in masks in our driveway! Ralph & Rae Ellen Holman were married 5/23/70 St. Phillip Church, Saddle Brook, N.J. Have been Herald readers since moving to Camano in 2012.

The pandemic didn’t stop many important family milestones from being celebrated. Ralph and Rae Ellen Holman’s children and grandchildren drove up to Camano Island from Seattle to put up the sign and greet them from the driveway, with masks on.

With vacations limited to day trips close to home, we’re finding more time to enjoy places like Deception Pass State Park, where Tino Fortino took this sunset photo.

With vacations limited to day trips close to home, we’re finding more time to enjoy places like Deception Pass State Park, where Tino Fortino took this sunset photo.

A dragonfly rests on a red hot poker plant in a Lynnwood garden.

“This little fellow literally crossed my path while I was mowing the lawn,” says Tim McKibben of Smokey Point.

The early days of summer were marked by more rain than usual. This photo was taken by Bryana Shepherd during a walk around her Everett neighborhood with her two sons.

Sierra Edmundson is a member of the class of 2020 at Lakewood High School. The pandemic severely disrupted high school and college graduations, but grads like Edmundson made do.

Debbie Paddock of south Everett spied this raccoon on a tree in a neighbor’s back yard, and grabbed her camera.