Deborah Bach has the story over at Three Sheets Northwest":
[Photo courtesy of Gerry Henson: Sailor and photographer Kelly O'Neil Henson, with her golden retriever Whidbey, was a fixture in the Northwest sailing community.]The daffodils tossed into the waters around Blakely Rock Saturday were like the person they signified—sunny, optimistic, full of promise.
Sailors competing in the first race of the Center Sound Series threw the flowers into the water as they rounded the rock, the same way they do each year. The tradition is testament to the immutable and special place Kelly O’Neil Henson still holds in the local sailing community, six years after the beloved sailor and race photographer died at age 46 following a car accident.
