Volunteers Elizabeth Hoover and Mim Loree raise the flag at the Mukilteo lighthouse as a ferry heads to Whidbey Island.

Graca Ribeiro teaches Brazilian dance steps to 8-year-old Jessica Campbell at the Rosehill Community Center.

Charles and Gayle Pancerzewski stand in their painstakingly landscaped garden. The garden features a boulder-studded waterfall and stream, plus a wide variety of plants, shrubs and trees. In the past three years they have invested about $100,000 in landscaping.

A fish sculpture in the Pancerzewski's Mukilteo garden is crafted out of welded horseshoes, metal files and shovel heads.

Karen Dempsey walks dogs for friends at Harbour Pointe Middle School, one Mukilteo's picturesque new school facilities.

Residents must know band season is ahead as Richard Chung and fellow band members practice outdoors at Olympic View Middle School.

Mukilteo's historic Pioneer Cemetery has gravestones dating to the 1890s and offers a striking view of Puget Sound and Whidbey Island.

Chuck Lee's Design Consultants architectural firm operates out of a 1940s-era gas station.

Mickey Rounds (shown giving Jack Bateman a haircut) loves to talk with his customers but he also knows when to be a good listener.

Long shadows creep across the fairways of Harbour Pointe Golf Club, an affluent and fast-growing area of Mukilteo.

The ferry Kitsap heads past the Mukilteo lighthouse on its run to Whidbey Island.

Morgan Van Ness (right) takes a violin lesson from Charles Atwood at Mukilteo's Rosehill Community Center.