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. 

Northwest: Mount Vernon

Tulip Town

May 4 . 2012

It was a gray, drizzly day. Half the daffodils in this particular field were dead. My pants got dirty from the muddy fields. The ideal Tulip Town visit this was not. But I had neglected these flowery fields for almost 20 years, I didn't expect much hospitality.