Photoessay #1271 - Gorgeous Day

The weather today dawned tremendously beautiful. Around here, sometimes it never hits 60 degrees until 4th of July. You forget that it's actually summer in other places. But today was a rare April Day with blue skies and a warm touch to the air.

Time to get moving! We gotta go out and enjoy this. And, I know for the first time in many a century, there wasn't anything that we had to do. So we decided to go to the Skagit Valley and maybe La Conner. And how about our friends Mark and Teru on Fidalgo Island? They're up that way and they are always suggesting that we come visit. I find the number and leave a message. Who knows if they are even in town?

So off we go, with Teddy (and his cone), we have some new containment strategies which worked pretty well. The cone is coming apart, Dennis keeps repairing it with packing tape which also comes off giving him a deconstructive air. As we leave town, the temperature in the car says 54 degrees. An older man walking his dog is dressed in shorts and a sleeveless top. That's SUMMER weather around here. Heck, at 7:15, it still says 66 degrees. Balmy!

We make it up to the Skagit Valley. It's tulip time up there and everybody and their brother is wandering around the Skagit Valley. Except it's been so cold, hardly any tulips are even out. We get the map, we're looking for a letterbox in Rexville which is on the tulip loop. Turns out to be a nice place with great sandwiches. We find the box. The landscape, green and scenic. Love the place.

Mark calls back. They're expecting some other guests today but come on by. So we show up and spend an very pleasant couple hours on their deck with their own fabulous view. I think the other guests eventually came but instead, they visited with us.

First shot taken from the moving car on I5 looking east with the Cascade mountains showing beautiful, maybe north of Marysville? Second shot from our friend's deck facing west. You can't quite see it in the picture, but you look at Pass Lake, then some more Fidalgo hills, then acroww the Sound and you can just see the Olympics. Teru, in the foreground, it's her house!

When it's nice like this, you just have to get going.