The views with a house attached . . .

Yes, we love our views. 

Looking north out of our dining room, living room or master bedroom to the north we have the the Strait of Juan de Fuca, the San Juan islands and snow-capped Mount Baker in the distance.  Mount Baker is spectacular almost every morning at dawn.  Moving closer we have Protection Island between us and Whidbey Island in the distance.  The foreground is dominated with a forest of Douglas Fir and other evergreens. 

Looking east we have a lovely view of Sequim Bay through a gap in our own Douglas Fir trees.  The local yacht club holds its Thursday evening "Beer Can Races" with the start in plain view just a few hundred yards away.  The dining room, kitchen, den/office and even the laundry room all have picture windows to enjoy the view of the bay and trees.

There is a hallway to the bedrooms that has a full wall of windows looking south at the Olympic National Forest about 5 miles away.  Fortunately, the trees don't know where the boundary is, so visually the forest is less than a mile away.  Mt. Constance at 7756 feet is barely 20 miles away.  Many other peaks over 7000 ft are also in view. 

Mt. Olympus and its neighboring peaks have seven glaciers approximately 36 miles to the west. 

Confused?  Here's a map you can click on.

The neighborhood itself is a pleasant grassy slope cresting just south of our place.  Most of the neighbors homes have a few mature conifers around them.  The rest is open fields of wild hay-grass with no fences so we share a feeling of open space with our neighbors.  Sure is different than in California where our living room looked the bathroom of our neighbor--even if that was occasionally interesting! 

Here are a few images of our views . . . click on any of the thumbnails for a full size view.

    to the North

    to the East

    to the South

    to the West

    and in our own backyard