Kristin Bishop, 14, of Sequim harvests lavender at Purple Haze Lavender Farm. Visitors are welcome on the farm to pick the plant at $5 a bundle.

In 1911, the Lehman family opened a meat market in downtown Sequim. A grocery store, still owned and operated by the family, is the oldest business in Sequim. The mural outside the store was painted by Kim Kopp.

Gayle Heller, of Poulsbo, picks her own raspberries for 95 cents a pound at Graymarsh Farm in Sequim.

Jean Klahn moved her deli into the former St. Luke's Episcopal Church three years ago. The church was built in 1896. Klahn starts work each day at 4:30 in the morning to prepare for a big lunchtime crowd.

Every day, Donald Newberg visits his wife's grave at the Dungeness Cemetery high above Sequim. There's no water service at the cemetery anymore, so Newberg brings his own to take care of the grass. He moved to Sequim a few months ago to be near his daughter and the cemetery. Newberg and his wife were married 49 years.

A buffalo at the Olympic Game Farm in Sequim checks with a visitor for food. The farm is home to trained film and television animals that can not be released back into the wild.

Dungeness Spit, jutting out into the Strait of Juan de Fuca, is the longest natural sand hook in the nation at six miles long. The federal wildlife reserve is an excellent spot for bird watching.

Emma Barrell, 4, gets some help from sisters Allison, 10, rear, and Amanda Tjemsland, 8, during the children's summer cultural program run by the Jamestown S'Klallam tribe.

Phillip Hergash, 22, of Sequim, rides at the Sequim Skateboard Park in the parking lot of Sequim Bible Church. The church is letting the community use the lot until a new cement skate park is finished at Carrie Blake Park.

Jadyne and Mike Reichner started Purple Haze Lavender Farm as a tiny test garden. The farm now covers five acres, includes a U-Cut area for visitors and offers an array of classes and products.

An elk gets a piece of bread from a visitor to the Olympic Game Farm in Sequim.