Saw this, this Saturday afternoon, on the second day of December 2023. The Facebook page is titled Life in Northwest Washington.
The caption says, "I think this pretty much sums up Skagit Valley farmland".
Photos like this always seem to make me a bit homesick.
That is the Mount Baker volcano hovering above the Skagit Valley.
I think those are trumpeter swans in the foreground. A lot of those big birds arrive in the valley this time of year.
The location where those birds are roosting looks to be in what are known as the Skagit Flats. I think my Favorite Nephews, Jason and Joey, and Grand Nephew Hank Frank's orchard and houses are to the right of the view here.
Jason does not live in the house he bought next door to Joey's. Jason lives in Mount Vernon, up that slight hill you see in the lower middle of the photo.
Hank Frank's Grandpa Jake is currently living in the house Jason bought next to Joey's. Hank Frank drives his electric tractor over to Grandpa Jake's every morning to watch cartoons. A mini-road was made for Hank Frank's transit purposes.
It is the flood plain of the Skagit River which is known as the Skagit Flats.
Most of Western Washington is not flat.
Where I currently live, in North Texas, the landscape is pretty much flat. But, I've never heard it referred to as the Texas Flats. Or the Red River Flats. Or the Wichita Flats.
Which seems odd, since it is really super flat for miles and miles in any direction...
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