GP

Here is a picture of the old Georgia Pacific factory from the third floor of the stairwell of a hundred year-old office building downtown at Holly and Cornwall. Off in the distance are the San Juans.

Many of the building are from the pulp and bleaching mills at GP. There are long-terms plans to take the facility down and do something with it. God, please save some of these relics of Bellingham's gritty, industrial past.

And unfortunately, what will probably adorn this site will be generic condos like those sprouting up all over Bellingham. Condos that remind me frighteningly of timeshares in Lake Tahoe. A little less wood trim up here those. And a marina for boats forty feet LOA and above. Some day I will dock my Swan 42 there. Wait, that's not living a minimalist lifestyle. Or is it?