A Great Day

We keep saying, “We need to pull the plug.” “We need to stop running all over acquiring photos.” “But…” It is that “But” which always seems to keep us going. One more picture, one more gem, one more discovery… What might we find? What might we learn? How might we be amazed? Thus we crammed two meetings in yesterday.

The first was with Ann Basye and her mother Mary Alice Johnson Basye. We met them in the family’s over one hundred year old farm house. If that wasn’t perfect enough, workers were outside busily restoring the accompanying barn. Pictures, stories, wonderful people, all reasons we keep not stopping! It was a fabulous meeting and we got some great pictures. But one of our favorites has to be this one:

Guess where that is. It is inside the Carnation Creamery! The perfect accompaniment to our cover photo! We also got some great family and farm shots. We can’t thank the Basyes enough for inviting us into their home and being so warm, welcoming and generous.

Next we dashed over to Concrete to meet with Skagit County Historian Dan Royal. We got to swap stories about the struggles of book writing/compiling. He recently worked on “Bridgeside: Selected Stores of Dick Fallis Skagit County Historian” (we happily purchased two copies of our own, if you are interested, the book is being sold at the Skagit County Historical Museum in La Conner) and is currently finishing up a MASSIVE Skagit County genealogy project that will be a two volume collection. It would have been worth the trip simply to meet Dan and get copies of his latest book, but we got a few nice photos from him too.

To sum up, a great day! But at some point we simply must curb our obsession.