The Tulip Festival

It rained today. We thought it would be a 'wash-out' day too, but then decided to head up to Skagit Valley anyway to see if the tulips had made any progress toward a successful showing. And they had, in a big way! (But I have to say that, for all the admonitions about how tulips like well-drained soil, there was sure a lot of sticky mud to wade through on this rainy day!)

There are several 'showcase' places, one with beautiful demonstration gardens that were amazing - but full of people in spite of the rain. Two other places mostly featured the vast fields of color. The variety is wonderful and there is just nothing like a huge-scale view of flower fields.

We also drove up to one of the Oyster House places we had missed on our trip to Bellingham last week and had a fabulous dinner there - our repertoire of places to take visitors is rapidly increasing! Now if we just had a house...