A deer stops for a drink on a lonely road on Shaw Island.

Sister Dorothy Hood stands at the Shaw Island ferry dock, which is operated by Franciscan nuns.

Mother Hildegard scolds a llama trying to get food intended for another. The llamas share pasture with alpacas, sheep and other animals.

Jack Rawals with his horse Red. Rawals uses horses for logging on Show Island.

The little red schoolhouse on Shaw Island teaches grades K-8. Lynnette Rucco-Baier, one of its two teachers, reads to first- through fourth-graders on the front steps.

Fred and Marilyn Ellis walk through the pasture near their home. The Ellises have donated a large portion of their property to the University of Washington for a nature preserve.

Northwest Marine Technologies is the major employer on the island. The company makes fish tags, hair-thin, stainless-steel sensor rods that are inserted into salmon noses to collect information about the fish.

Hardy Schmidt scans the headlines in USA Today outside the little store run by Fransican nuns.

Retired Seattle Police officer Al Wilding sits with his wife, Lotte, and dog Pierre on their waterfront property.

Mother Dilecta lets one of her cows sample the flowers from her garden. The flowers are cut for the alter in the chapel.

Librarian Geb Nichols strolls over to the Shaw Island Museum from the Library with her dog Tula.