Imagine my surprise this morning when I encountered Sarah Chrisman on Pass Island at Deception Pass. Sarah and Gabriel Chrisman are a married couple engaged in a long-term experiential study of culture and technologies of the late nineteenth-century. According to their website: www.thisvictorianlife.com, she writes books about the Victorian era, “and our entire life is an ongoing research project into our favorite decades of the 1880’s and ’90’s. We love teaching others about the everyday lives of the past, and feel that exposure to the real clothing of real people offers an opportunity to understand history in a way that can never be conveyed by costumes. We are NOT actors playing dress-up to portray ‘great men/women,’ but just ordinary people choosing to insert as much of history into our present as we can, and using our experiences to teach others.” Sarah said she was on her way today from Port Townsend to LaConner to view daffodils and tulips. Wow.