Happy New Year from Soap Lake! With several inches of snow still on our front yards and alleys, we’re past the longest day of the year and heading for the golden days of summer. Hard to imagine right now – but it won’t be long before the lake water color changes from grey to aquamarine and the spring winds chase the suds to shore; a springtime reminder of why our lake was named. The sky will be brilliant blue cradling cloud puffs passing overhead as camp trailers arrive with weary travelers on board. Once again visitors will ogle and shuffle around the world’s largest human-figure sundial, the B and B will open it’s drive up stall speakers, just like in the old A & W days, and Daisy street will be alive with an incessant stream of traffic heading north and south.

Soap Lake artist Brent Blake had a retrospective exhibit of his work at the Moses Lake Museum and Art Center last fall. The featured video to the left – in two parts - was created by JACOL Filmworks and presented at the opening event for the show. Brent is the person behind the idea of creating a giant motion lava lamp in Soap Lake. He was the star of Amy Elliot and Elizabeth Donius’ documentary: World’s Largest, which premiered at the SouthXSouthwest Film festival in Austin, Texas last March. Brent is also owner of the Soap Lake Art Museum. He’s our own Willy Wanka and Don Quixote rolled into one. Thank God for creative people, vision, persistence, good-will and most of all, for Soap Lake – we Love you