Happy Saint Patrick's Day from LaConner, Washington. The rain is pouring down, the wind is blowing westerly gusting between 40 and 50 mph, the fields of daffodils are blooming and the tulip fields are ready to burst into bloom. Just another spring day in the very green Skagit Valley. My Irish ancestors left County Kerry 173 years ago on their journey to Australia then on to a new life on Whidby's Island in Washington State. Mary Margaret