Northwest: Tulip Town

Tulip Festival

Mt Vernon, WA

Last year I randomly stopped by the tulip fields a week or so late. The flowers were mostly dead, the colors mostly gone. This year, Ellen and I made it on time. It's a much different, and much better, experience when they flowers are in bloom. I probably didn't need to tell you that though. The weather for our day trip to Tulip Town was just about right for this time of year. Partly sunny, warm enough and no rain. We stopped at a few fields, almost got sucked into having to pay to look at flowers, bought a nice little bouquet, and called it a day.  I'm pretty sure everyone who visits the tulip fields has basically this exact same experience. That's not necessarily a bad thing though. 

Northwest: Little Towns

Anacortes / Mt Vernon / Arlington

May 10 . 2012

I've driven up and down I-5 more times than I can count. On each of those trips I passed freeway signs declaring the existence of the towns Arlington and Stanwood. Until this past thursday though, I had never set foot in either of these little populaces. I didn't willingly choose to spend my time visiting these towns, work forced my hand and sent me on an adventure. They weren't anything to write home about, but on this nice, mostly sunny spring day, they were something.