Small Towns in the Pacific Northwest

 I'm from Arlington, Washington, and so I love the Pacific Northwest and its tiny towns, the rolling pastures, tulip fields, and rugged mountains. I love the Victorian farmhouses and big, red barns. We lived "in town," but three sides of our house were surrounded by a dairy farm. Every evening a parade of cows would troop past our house on their way to the barn down the hill.

When I graduated from high school in 1980, Arlington had a population of about two thousand. Today, the Arlington area has a population of about twenty-thousand. Housing tracts have replaced the farms.

I still love it. And even though I've lived in California for close to forty years, I still get homesick. That's why a lot of my stories are set in the Pacific Northwest, including my newest series, Small Town.

My dad's garden

 A house in Seattle

A house on Queen Anne's Hill

 A house on Becky Avenue in Arlington

Downtown Arlington

 My dad in his garden

 Near Deception Pass

A house on Olympic Hill in Arlington

The house where my husband and I lived on Cobb Street in Arlington.

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