Visiting Sedro-Woolley

Sunny and I got to spend the weekend with Allison at her country home near Sedro-Woolley. Sedro is a misspelling of a Spanish word for cedar (there are lots) and Woolley is the name of a family of early settlers.

Allison Beezer is my financial advisor and a dear friend. She said I'd get to see swans and snow geese.

I saw a flock of swans and thought they probably went with the nearby farm. Allison smiled.

Little did I know.






Sunny had a wonderful time and got to meet a REALLY BIG DOG. She loved it and wanted to hang out there all the time. Looks like that BIG DOG liked Sunny too.








And then I saw more swans. Wow, I thought, that farmer has sure got a lot of swans.










Allison has a Wii and we bowled. I made the most improvement ever and was named a champion. (Moving from lousy up to fair is a BIG improvement








I then learned about nurse trees. When a big tree falls, pine cones and seeds take root in the bark and grow. In the picture on the left you can see a cedar growing. The tree in the picture below had seven trees plus lots of other plants. Some of the stumps have huckleberries. They look like bad-hair-day trees.

This is Mt. Baker. You can see what a beautiful area this is.

And here, if you look very hard, you'll see a line of white in the distance. Swans. Thousands of them!! They fly here all the way from Siberia to winter. If it were me, I'd have kept going south, but they seem to like it here as they come every year. I finally understood why Allison kept smiling. We'll see geese tomorrow, she said.


And here they are, snow geese. There are hundreds of thousands of them all quacking at the same time. Beautiful.

Sunny and I came home feeling more than lucky--we felt rich. We live in a beautiful area, are both healthy (even though we both have a touch or arthritis), and have a wonderful family and great friends. Life is good!

This has been my first attempt at adding pictures and telling a story. Maybe I'll get better. But I couldn't wait any longer. Want to be more in touch with all of you and especially the little ones.