In San Juan Island’s morning light….

Sometimes you wake up to an impressionistic painting - sunrise over the harbor this morning on the island at 5:45am...photo by Russell Sadler (thanks, Russell!)

Hope your week is off to great start – let’s see what’s going on ’round the island:

• The Community Theatre‘s farce The Real Inspector Hound begins its three week run this Friday – funny & fast paced & you’ll love it, especially if you already like Tom Stoppard – here’s more.

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Grisha, Chris & Colin are playing at their album release show on Wednesday!

• They’re back!

This week!

We hadn’t heard from them because they were busy making their first full-length album, but Enso is playing this week (here’s the Facebook details) – here’s the scoop from Grisha:

Hey, Ian! Enso is playing at the Knoll (234 Beaverton Valley Rd.) this Wednesday.  It’s a release party for our first full-length album Stop Fighting, which we’d love for you to hear.  Music starts at 6:30 PM.  The Sonic Vandals and Kels Boreen will join us.

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Visiting with former islander Teresa, who is now in Boulder...

• It was fun to check in with our friend Teresa Smith in Boulder last week – can you believe it? You remember the girls from when they all lived on San Juan Island – well, Michelle & Erica are grown up now, and Emma’s 13 & in eighth grade…yep, time passes!

Teresa’s on the last lap of her academic work (in art, naturally!) at Naropa University, and she’s says life’s great. Check out her work here…and get ready to say “Wow!”

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• Mary-Brooke at Mirabella Skincare & Massage tells me she has a new neighbor down the hall, and wants to tell you about her – here’s more about Rachael, from Mary-Brooke:

Rachael

Rachael Netherton has been practicing massage for over eight years as a certified LMP. She has studied Deep Tissue, Swedish and Hot Stone massage styles, a variety of body treatments, and Reiki energy work.

Growing up in the San Juan Islands has given Rachael a natural desire to create peaceful, healing and inspiring settings for clients to receive therapeutic treatments. Rachael’s work focuses on therapeutic massage, a wonderful technique that enhances mobility and decreases pain. In all of her treatments, she works to create a space and time that is focused on decreasing stress, allowing ones natural life energy to recover and aid in the healing process. She also incorporates high quality massage oils and essential oils to enhance each treatment.

Working on San Juan Island for the past six years has given Rachael peace, and a strong desire to continue expanding her practice here in the Islands. Rachael is now practicing at Harbor Village in Suite E (just down the hall from Mirabella).

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