More Than You See Here

Pretend you were one of these happy people at the Bellingham Farmers Market Wednesday Market on the Fairhaven Green last summer -- soaking up sunshine, replete with a tasty snack or fresh berries from one of the vendors' stalls, listening to a local musician perform.

If you were lounging on the left side of the Village Green, near the largest flag, and looked straight back at the brick building on the other end of the Green, and peered down low, under the second-story window with someone looking out, and used your supernatural powers to enlarge what you were looking at -- you would have beheld today's blip.

Well, maybe not that nifty bicycle -- that was a lucky coincidence, to find the bike there today. But you would have seen three painters, and above them, the upstairs neighbors. Wanting to find out who lived on the other end of the building, you'd walk past the Fairhaven Outdoor Cinema -- a huge white wall (visible in the "happy people" link) on which free films are shown on summer evenings.

There's another painter -- with a watchful pug -- on the trompe l'oeil mural's righthand second story, and two people live below her (not shown), looking toward this view -- artist Lanny Little's representation of what the nearby corner looked like in 1927. He completed the Fairhaven Village Green Mural in 2000, and really put himself into it.

(You may read about Lanny here.)