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One perfect day, with tulips
Tuesday my daughter Katie and I went up to the Skagit Valley for the Tulip festival with my friend ladyjestocost. It was just about a perfect day. I had my doubts about taking Katie, but when we hit the first vast expanse of tulip fields and she went "WOW!" I smiled inwardly and knew that it was worth it. On the way to the tulip fields we passed a field full of white snow geese. There must have been thousands of them. We took pictures, and I got a couple of spectacular pics of them all taking off at once. We toured the Roozengarde display gardens, Katie borrowed my camera and took a number of blurry pictures of grass and trees and sky and people's feet, but a fair number of quite good pictures. After the gardens, we lunched in lovely LaConnor (say that ten times quickly!), in a restaurant overlooking the slough. There was a bald eagle sitting on an old stump, and we saw a seal surface. And of course we had lethal chocolate desserts.

Then we walked out into one of the open tulip fields and took lots more pictures. It was a sea of color pale pinks, rose, and magenta with the odd yellow or red tulip. It was a deep and intense pleasure to be surrounded by so much incredible color. It was like tasting chocolate for the very first time. You realize you've been craving it, without ever knowing what it was you craved. After an hour or so bathing our eyes in color, we headed back to the car, stopping to buy an armload of tulips to take home.