tip toe .. . through the tulips

Living in an area that has four distinctive seasons has a beauty not imagined elsewhere.

We headed south yesterday to LaConner to their annual Tulip Festival.

The day was a teensy bit chilly at 7 degrees Celsius,

and the clouds hung quite low .. .

but then the tulips stood

out as if the world had

no other color.

We paid our five dollars each to gain entrance to tulip town.


I noticed that the buses held the retired folks,


the vans held the mothers anxious to prop


their little girls amongst the blooms,


and then there were the cars


with the lone photographers,


and a few couples,


like us.




A few years ago, we might have done this outing on a double date . .


the men could then amuse themselves with guy talk,


as the girls walked ahead a bit.





The outing would have primarily been .. .


two guys. . .with their two girls.





We've done that lots, and had such fun,


we even talked about the last time we had been to LaConner,


yes, it was with another couple.




These days, we can take a day in the middle of the week since that is the day we have farm help.




Good idea .. . that farm help.

I took oodles of shots.

I've really not taken the time to show you the very best.

I want to make some prints and frame them for our home.

There are likely better prints out there . .

these prints will hold memories.

Around noonish we stopped for lunch.

We enjoyed some fresh Northwestern Clam Chowder with some fresh brown bread.

We'll be going back there.

They had delicious looking home made pies .. .

but we didn't know there would be homemade pies and had earlier shared a two pound apple fritter from Starbucks.

(I'm not sure if it weighed two pounds but it may have according to the scale this morning)

We strolled through the town enjoying the shops.

In one antique store I found a Life Magazine dated on the day of my birth .. .

didn't buy it . .. .

already regret it.

We picked out the houses we would be happy to move into.

We picked out landscaping that we could easily enjoy.

This morning we had an early outing.

If I asked you to guess which hat my beloved wore today .. .

you would never ever guess .. .

not the farmer, not the mudder, not the Gardener. . .

this one will be knew to the blog .. .

See you tomorrow my friends.