I shot this photograph recently at Watermark Books in downtown Anacortes, where 15-year shop employee Dave Taylor was assisting a customer who spotted a “book of interest” in the front window display. I was researching an e-newsletter article for the Anacortes Chamber of Commerce. Evidence of this community’s love for books is the fact that there are two new book stores (Watermark and Read Me a Story) and two used book stores (Earthbound and Pelican Bay) within a few blocks of each other. There are small scale book sales in numerous other places, ranging from grocery stores to kitchen shops, from marine supply shops  to hardware stores.