Shelton Washington State

County seat, of Mason County, Washington, highly rates United States Westernmost city on Puget Sound e quates above ground sans tectonic plates Population 9,834 per 2010 census end result from biological mates maintains commission form of government drafted by mandates. Shelton served by small steamboats greet omprising Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet Old Settler, Irene, Willie, City of Shelton, Marian, Clara Brown, & S.G. Simpson logging, farming, dairying, ranching & oyster cultivation for populace to eat Simpson Timber Company mill lit airy cobblestone trod with defeated cleat Puget Sound's Oakland Bay over yon dominates landscape of the down town area as essential heart beat Shelton identifies the "Christmas Tree Capital" sold by the ton. 47°12'49?N 123°6'22?W (47.213702, -123.106088) coordinate bench mark total area of 5.9 square miles (15 km2), of which 5.6 square miles (15 km2) land 0.3 square miles (0.78 km2) (5.60%) water laps with an occasional errant shark fanned in a pinch captured, processed and canned a delicacy that fin de siecle bony illegal booty fined by the oceanic arc. well nigh two decades in the past this poet trekked across America beginning in a place called Gap Pennsylvania, where stockpile en massed of Amish goodies barely did last and vanished in a gingerly snap of fingers, which necessitated sustenance when van fueled i.e. gassed up while myself or other driver stole a cat nap seduced to sleep by syncopated tires as highway miles passed inching closer to youngest sister via this linear transcontinental lap destination Seattle Washington indigenous iconic statue cast. Ronald Strickland a fine companion and Boone storyteller to boot about my zen age (five decades plus two) him trying to rake in some loot by writing about his idyllic travels, mute, yet unpretentious and no square at root perhaps one day, I will surprise him with a call and give him a toot though on might deign to bellow while atop the snow capped Mount Rainier Taking in the august magic crystalline beauty all year round: whereat snowfall etches silhouette once dusk shed daylight sketching in natural bas relief ascension from horizon to heavenly height albedo effect from glistening snow light luminescence transforming night into blinding sight from pure flakes of incandescent white.