Dancing Goats~~~Loving life~~~~~~Februrary Theme Day Post

These are the Goaties--Sheryl and Carol and their friend the Dog---Klyde.  The love playing together.  Everyday off they go running and leaping with Sheryl's ears a-flying.

Linking to City Daily Photo Theme Day~~~HERE

Our Resident Eagles

We have several resident Eagles and several nests close by.

 Here is a pic of the nest close by

Linking to Mosaic Monday~~~HERE

More Barns

These barns are in North Sedro Woolley

Linking to Tom's Barn Collective~~~~HERE

Birds in the yard

I believe this is a House Finch------Mom and Pop

This is a pop-up and I can't get rid of it but it is a good pic of the Finch

 We have several feeders on our deck

 Varied thrush

 On the Willow tree by the pond is a Great Blue Heron---wondering if there were any fish in the pond

 Eagle landed in the Doug fir tree by the pond

Linking to Eileen's Saturday Critters~~~~HERE

Clouds

Cloudy day~~~~~beautiful Sunset

Linking to Skywatch~~~~~~HERE

1/25--Outdoor Wednesday #420

Monday being a fairly nice day I thought it would be fun to just drive around and take photos.  We headed North up Hwy. 9 to the Nooksack river.   We found snowy mountains and some Eagles and just good stuff

 Peek a boo

 The Twin Sisters

 A geodesic dome in Acme

 Part of the Nooksack river

 Eagle flying away

 And landing here

A different look at the sisters mountains---this look is from the highway the other look is from a dead end back road

Linking to Outdoor Wednesday~~~~HERE

Lost Community

driving down some backroads in North Sedro-Woollwy I came upon this neat building, Hoogdal community Club and  I thought maybe it had been a school once upon a time.  So I of course had to research it.

 And it had been a school built for the new town of Hoogdal in the early 1900s.
 The name Hoogdal is derived from “Ytterhogdal,” the settlers’ hometown in Sweden.


Quite an interesting story of the little town
At the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in 1909, four Swedish men from Saskatchewan learned about opportunities for cheap, logged-off land in Skagit County and made tracks there immediately.

P.O. Ostlund, Jonas Johnson, Hans Hanson, and Halvor Pearson bought a 550-acre tract in the hills north of Sedro-Woolley for seven Swedish families who wanted to settle together.

Most were farmers, carpenters or similar tradesmen. They carved homes and roads out of the wilderness, and earned their livings by working in nearby logging camps and mills.

Development began in earnest in 1911. Visualize, if you can, the enormous difficulties: no houses, no clearings, no wells, just 550 acres of cut-over land buried in debris and thickets of brush dotted with hundreds of huge stumps, and the whole surrounded by a towering stand of virgin timber.”

The nearest wagon roads were nearly 2 miles away. Even getting water for home use was a challenge, thanks to the area’s peculiar geologic formation, so it was transported by buckets and barrels from Swede Creek, a small stream winding through the settlement.
Read more about Hoogdal  HERE

Linking to Tom's Tuesday's Treasures~~~~HERE

On the way to Mt. Baker

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Stilly Valley (Stanwood) Farms

Cut across the Valley on the way to Stanwood this morning and this is what I saw.

A Farmers and some of his/her toys

 The Mountains and the sky were fabulous today

Linking to Tom's  Barn Collectible~~~~HERE

On the way to town a few days ago we saw several Eagles.  We have had very cold but sunny days---well now it is warmer but raining. 

These two Eagles were sitting together but when I went to get a shot one flew away---at least I got a semi capture

This guy stayed

Linking to Skywatch~~~~~HERE

Step outside and shoot........

.......with your camera

 Mt. Baker from Fir Island

 Black Angus

 Snow Geese

 Trumpeter Swan in a Potato field

 Sweetest little house

Ducks on my pond

Linking to OUTDOOR WEDNESDAY~~~~~HERE

A real antique

My 4th grade class picture---only I know where I am---Portland Oregon

Linking to Tom's Tuesday's Treasures~~~~~HERE


Psst:  3rd in front row right side

Western Winter

Well here in Western Washington we don't get too much snow or below freezing weather but so far in January we are doing just that.  Very cold and snowy although most of the snow is gone replaced by heavy frost.

Linking to Mosaic Monday~~~~~HERE

Various barns

 Was he not born in a barn

 Slowly sinking into the ground

A little goatie barn.  Just after I took this shot and drove away a whole bunch of goats came pouring out and I missed them.  Maaaaa!

Linking to Tom's Barn Collective~~~~~HERE