Sunday morning coming down.....

It's old home week here at Anchor as we move into our ninth week of existence.
Joy Kosola brought by a new Whidbey Island birding poster that she and Craig are producing. It's a beautiful poster/map of Whidbey identifying some of the prime birding locations on the island and surrounded with Craig's images of the birds here in paradise. Joy was at the shop to bring us more copies of their book, Rufous, the Amazing Hummingbird Story. Much like Rufous this book continues to fly. We also have Craig and Joy's new book, Our Pacific Northwest Birds and Habitat, it's a fine one

Mona Newbauer is circling the world of chocolate with her travels to Ecuador and now beautiful Pittsburgh. Fortunately Tony has the keys to the shop and could come replenish our stock of sea salt caramels, they seem to emulate Rufous and fly out of here.

Chris Dennis of Island Framery here in Clinton, brought some coupons for framing services. Now when you purchase your Perry Woodfin, or Craig Johnson print you get a coupon good for $20 off custom framing at Chris and Joy's shop.

We now have are the place to get Frances Woods' work all day every day. When that craving for a blank journal and a cup of coffee comes on you suddenly,  you can fill your needs with Frances' beautifully done blank journal, spiral bound, heavy weight paper interior and covers with beautiful pen and water color drawings of Great Blue Heron. The drawings and captions are from Frances' book Brushed By Feathers,  A Year of Birdwatching in the West. We also have blank note cards with ink and watercolor prints by Frances and her book, Down to Camp: A History of Summer Folk on Whidbey Island.

This week we have dramatically expanded the L'Amour collection, that's Louis. We now have almost one hundred volumes of western stories by the dean of the genre. While we were collecting our opening stock we searched diligently for books for this section and finally had a decent number to get started but we now have some for all the fans who have been inquiring after the tales of the black hats in the wild west. They are here now.

Also in this week is a beautiful book of photographs, Japanese Courtyard Gardens. This little book has a nice collection of plates of gardens intimate and public, minute and grand.

Trish has been experimenting some more in the kitchen and her Cinnamon Pull Apart rolls now have walnuts, they were good before, now they are even nuttier. the Wall of Fame is filling up.  Particular drinks for Particular People, come see who drinks what.

We have new outside seating.  Today you can sit and watch the ferry line and not even need your Helly or fleece.  The music is playing, the pie is apple and the coffee is hot.

Good beginning and better endings!

Daily through June 2011

Morning Specials! Opening-7:00am to 11:00am

One of Trish's Bacon and Cheddar Muffin, a Kiichli's bagel or a Cinnamon Pullapart and a 12 ounce Drip coffee for $3.00, may not be combined with other specials or coupons.

Afternoons Specials! 3:00 pm to Closing-7:00 pm

One slice of the Whidbey Pie of the day and a 12 ounce drip coffee for $4.00, may not be combined with other specials or coupons.

Come on down, we'll leave the lights on!

The weather is here we wish we were beautiful,

There is a strange light in the east, it has heat. I'm going to google it as soon as I finish this and find out what it is.

Emmy Lou is singing in the back room, the cookies are out. Trish's Bacon-Cheddar muffins are ready to heat and the first triple shot Americano is out the door. Trucks pulling boats are headed to the launches. We had a great day yesterday lots of new faces and friends saying hi to each other. The drink of the day yesterday was the five shot venti breve, bet you can't drink just one.

There is black raspberry pie for Saturday brunch, just the thing to fuel a morning of yard sale investigations or even yard work. Yesterday evening someone stopped by to stock up with George's Hatch Chile Truffle and Mona's Sea Salt Caramel as rewards after lawn mowing, not a bad motivational tool.

My book report on the "Girl Who...." trilogy is available in person. I can report that I was up til 1:30 am one night/morning, not that there is anything wrong with that but I do need to be here at o'dark thirty to unfurl flags, place cookies and stamp coffee cups.

If you have not tried one yet consider the personal portable French press X-Press Smartcup. It's a press brewing system in a 16 or 20 ounce paper cup. We grind your coffee immediately before we pour the brew water over the ground coffee, you have the filter and plunger and can brew to your desired strength. You take the whole thing with you. An island exclusive here at Anchor Books and Coffee, your hometown coffee shop in Clinton, Washington.

Enjoy the sun!