I am finally living a life where picnics are likely. In Michigan, we always had the cottage as our home base, so lunch-on-the-go wasn't necessary. In Seattle, you can drive an hour or 2 in any direction and find an area to explore for the day. That kind of spontaneity is fun and having a nice meal with us makes for a better trip.
While this photo looks like a magazine shoot, I can assure you that it took very little effort to put together. This image is all about the angles. The lunch and silverware draw your eye to the right, following the checks, while the white of the mugs in the picnic basket draw your eye up to the left to see the mountains. The image is full of color and texture and it would make a beautiful puzzle, don't you think?
The picnic basket was a wedding gift to us 25 years ago! It came stocked with sturdy plastic plates and mugs that snapped into the lid with leather straps. It also came with a plastic tablecloth, perfect to cover a well worn picnic table. It had been gathering dust in our basement for years, but now that I'm here in Washington we are pulling it out every chance we get.
I added plastic silverware, 2 plastic wine glasses, and 2 meals-to-go from the grocery deli.
The location? We pulled into Salsbury Point County Park and arranged our lunch on a picnic table facing the Hood Canal Floating Bridge. Look at the snow-capped mountains in the background! It was glorious and I didn't want to leave.
There are loads of parks on the Kitsap Peninsula and I know that we will be exploring many more in the years to come.
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