Tulips everywhere!!

Took one of the nice days we had and made the long journey up to La Conner for the tulips!  I remember the days of coming over the hill and seeing tulips everywhere - not so any more.  Think those days are gone forever, however there are still a lot of flowers!  Nothing quite like walking these lovely fields of tulips as far as you can see!  Farmers have gone in more for food and so not a lot of farms anymore growing flowers but enough I guess.  I think they mostly all belong to one family but there is at least one other family still farming the gorgeous bulbs!  Had a picture perfect day and loved every minute of it.  They don't last long and we missed them last year when we stopped in Holland, Michigan and they had had a warm spring and tulips and come and gone by the time we arrived in late April!  

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