They're back!

We found trumpeter swans alight in the Skagit Valley and north, when we drove up to Bellingham for the day. Very nice to see them again. And a little closer besides!

I had crab cakes and sweet potato fries at the Oyster Bar - yum! - and chocolate gelato in Fairhaven. We wandered through two wonderful artsy sort of stores and could have spent thousands on beautiful blown glass and art and jewelry. (But we didn't. We hung tough and considered The Economy.) We had a tough time getting Mark out of an embarrassing situation in the saltwater taffy store with the dull saleswoman who couldn't understand his joke about how the only Jelly Belly jellybean container that was still full was the popcorn flavor one and hadn't she just said she didn't like that kind herself... And there were only a few bicyclists on Chuckanut Drive where there is no room for them, so at least we came through there unscathed. Altogether a successful outing, even if we did run the odometer over 9900 miles on my brand new car that maybe isn't so brand new anymore. Good grief.

Anyway, that was the excursion for today. We'll see what sort of trouble we can get into tomorrow. Because, of course, tomorrow is the first of March!!! Spring is on the way!

(Yes, we had snow again this week.)