Agate Northwest LLC

About Agate Northwest LLC

At low tide along Bellingham Bay, beachcombers walk the gravel below Boulevard Park looking for agates the surf has tumbled smooth, and there's a similar patience in the way Agate Northwest works a property after a rare snowfall — nothing rushed, every walkway and driveway worked over until it's clear down to solid ground. Whatcom County's winters are usually wet more than white, but when an Arctic front slides down out of the Fraser Valley, the cold arrives fast and the ice that follows is stubborn. Clearing it means working steadily outward from the front door, the same unhurried attention a beachcomber gives a stretch of shoreline. A driveway scraped back to bare pavement, ready for the next dry spell Bellingham always eventually gets, is a small, solid kind of relief.