Tulips

Our friends Kelly and Mike Payne who live up in Anacortes have long talked about the tulip fields near their house.  They live in an area of Washington that's more agricultural and one of the "crops" that is grown in Skagit Valley is bulbs.  About a month ago, there were fields of daffodils, but this months it's tulips and it is quite the tourist attraction.  Lately there have been articles in our newspaper about the tulips and you see stories on the news and tourist brochures.

Saturday we decided to be spontaneous and drive up to the fields and see Mike and Kelly.  They had just closed on a new home the day before so we were able to have a tour of their new home. 

Kelly and her new house.

After a short visit (they were working hard to get it cleaned up before moving), we headed out to see the fields.  It's not hard to spot the tulips as you are driving along - the strips of color on an otherwise grey and green landscape really pop out!

It's pretty amazing to see the fields because of the intense color that is radiated by this beautiful flower.  The first fields we found were red and yellow.

This yellow guy must have gotten lost...

Love this pic that Emmy took.

Cannon isn't with us because he was flying home from Nicaragua.

I look cold because I was!

A beautiful hybrid of the red and the yellow.

The next fields we found were pinks, purples and other colors.