Medina's city hall, police station and jail are seen in the background where Juliette Boddy, 6, runs along a sea wall at a public beach in Medina Park.

Multi-million-dollar homes on the Medina waterfront can be seen from an Argosy cruise boat that leaves from downtown Kirkland.

Cort Christopher, 6, pulls his wagon out of Lake Washington at Medina Beach Park where he was visiting with his grandfather, who has lived in Medina for 35 years.

John Frost owned the Medina Grocery for 33 years. "He used to serve egg nog at Christmas, and if you called up and wanted lobster for dinner at a moment's notice, he'd find it for you," said Barbara Quinn, a Medina resident.

When 82-year-old Ed Baker of Bellevue told Italene Gaddis how sweet the ladies of the Medina Post Office are, she sang a song for him. Gaddis cleans up at the post office.

Carolyn Hathaway and her dog, Buddy, and her friend Patty Rebne and her son, Brodie, 3, walk away from Tully's in Yarrow Point, which has become a gathering place for people in the area to meet.

Brian Nienaber's son Alex, 9 months, is learning to walk during a visit to the Medina Beach Park. Brian and his family live in Bellevue now, but he grew up in Medina and his parents still live there.

Kevin Doyle, putting, and Mike Hill practice golf in the office at the Overlake Golf and Country Club.

Anne Johnson wheels some plants to her display space at the Wells Medina Nursery, which has been in the same location for 27 years.

Jim and Lydia Easley have modeled their backyard garden-scale railroad after trains and buildings in Switzerland, Austria and Germany.

Three beach chairs sit on the shore outside Bill Gates' waterfront home in Medina -- two adult-size, for Bill and wife Melinda, and a child-size seat for daughter Jennifer.

Overlake Golf and Country Club members Tom Benton, left, and Walter Euyang, second from left, played 18 holes with pros Rick Acton and Jim Shriver, far right, in the Pacific Northwest Senior PGA Championship Pro-Am tournament on September 1, 1998.

Blair Stern ,left, and Matt Nelson, center, clean a perch on the pier at Yarrow Point Beach while Brian Sherwood watches. The boys, all 13, live in Bellevue but use the beach because they have friends in the area.