{"id":3875,"date":"2012-07-11T15:25:31","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T22:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/?p=3875"},"modified":"2013-05-12T08:20:29","modified_gmt":"2013-05-12T15:20:29","slug":"tulip-festival-in-skagit-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/?p=3875","title":{"rendered":"Tulip festival in Skagit Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2012\/Travel\/Tulip_fest\/DSC_4253_tulips.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"599\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"menu1\">\n<ul id=\"stores\" class=\"clearfix rMenu-hor rMenu\">\n<li class=\"page_item\"><a title=\"Buy now!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imagekind.com\/Tulip-field_art?IMID=3516c120-1d65-4514-ae3c-e95c3d7239ea\" target=\"_blank\">Buy prints of this picture on Imagekind<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Every spring in Skagit Valley of Washington State you have a chance to feel yourself a little bit Dutch.<\/p>\n<p>If you take Highway 5 south (I assume that you are Canadian\uf04a), then as soon as you see a huge pipe ornamented with tulips near Mount Vernon, you are in the right place.<\/p>\n<p>There is a huge number of tulip fields here, as well as a few daffodil and iris ones. I should say that it is difficult to catch the blooming of all three of these flowers at once: daffodils bloom earlier than tulips, and irises &#8211; later.  Among all these immense flower fields there are two key places for the eye\u2019s enjoyment \u2013 Roozengaarde and Tulip Town. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tulips.com\/bloommap.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Their official interactive map<\/a> shows which fields are blooming at the present moment.<\/p>\n<p>Roozengaarde is a farm established by real Dutch (I emphasize real, because the founders of many \u201cDutch\u201d, \u201cBavarian\u201d and other \u201cEuropean\u201d places here have nothing common with their declared origin), and besides the fields it has a garden where the many varieties  of tulips are aesthetically demonstrated.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Also you can find out whether you are enough of a tulip.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2012\/Travel\/Tulip_fest\/DSC_4182_tulips.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"599\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Valery Gergiev (it is the tulip\u2019s name)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2012\/Travel\/Tulip_fest\/DSC_4179_tulips.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"599\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"menu1\">\n<ul id=\"stores\" class=\"clearfix rMenu-hor rMenu\">\n<li class=\"page_item\"><a title=\"Buy now!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imagekind.com\/Tulips_art?IMID=a263f4c0-757b-430c-8b81-edf547584a43\" target=\"_blank\">Buy prints of this picture on Imagekind<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Orange monarch<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2012\/Travel\/Tulip_fest\/DSC_4187_tulips.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"565\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"menu1\">\n<ul id=\"stores\" class=\"clearfix rMenu-hor rMenu\">\n<li class=\"page_item\"><a title=\"Buy now!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imagekind.com\/Tulips_art?IMID=a88e6b8f-72f3-4f4e-be73-b148015e4556\" target=\"_blank\">Buy prints of this picture on Imagekind<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Salmon parrot<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2012\/Travel\/Tulip_fest\/DSC_4190_tulips.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"577\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"menu1\">\n<ul id=\"stores\" class=\"clearfix rMenu-hor rMenu\">\n<li class=\"page_item\"><a title=\"Buy now!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imagekind.com\/Tulips-Salmon-parrot_art?IMID=bff0ddf2-df0d-42db-bff5-b2471a2438ba\" target=\"_blank\">Buy prints of this picture on Imagekind<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Flowerbeds of tulips and daffodils separated by muscari streams.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2012\/Travel\/Tulip_fest\/DSC_4194_tulips.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"592\" height=\"900\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"menu1\">\n<ul id=\"stores\" class=\"clearfix rMenu-hor rMenu\">\n<li class=\"page_item\"><a 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alt=\"\" width=\"566\" height=\"900\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"menu1\">\n<ul id=\"stores\" class=\"clearfix rMenu-hor rMenu\">\n<li class=\"page_item\"><a title=\"Buy now!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imagekind.com\/Muscari-and-tulip-flowerbed_art?IMID=99a30692-ecbb-48ec-8254-52c4c0c1e4c3\" target=\"_blank\">Buy prints of this picture on Imagekind<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Tulip endearments<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2012\/Travel\/Tulip_fest\/DSC_4203_tulips.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"900\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"menu1\">\n<ul id=\"stores\" class=\"clearfix rMenu-hor rMenu\">\n<li class=\"page_item\"><a title=\"Buy now!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imagekind.com\/Tulips_art?IMID=539260c3-806e-449f-bbd7-f411558ee561\" target=\"_blank\">Buy prints of this picture on Imagekind<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Maureen<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2012\/Travel\/Tulip_fest\/DSC_4207_tulips.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"900\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"menu1\">\n<ul id=\"stores\" class=\"clearfix rMenu-hor rMenu\">\n<li class=\"page_item\"><a title=\"Buy now!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imagekind.com\/Tulips-Maureen_art?IMID=74850818-44eb-4ab5-b79e-346c196d0e45\" target=\"_blank\">Buy prints of this picture on Imagekind<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Menton<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2012\/Travel\/Tulip_fest\/DSC_4209_tulips.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"598\" height=\"900\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"menu1\">\n<ul id=\"stores\" class=\"clearfix rMenu-hor rMenu\">\n<li class=\"page_item\"><a title=\"Buy now!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imagekind.com\/Tulips-Menton_art?IMID=bf874b83-a41f-4ffb-8e7f-7b45689f2337\" target=\"_blank\">Buy prints of this picture on Imagekind<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Temple of Beauty<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2012\/Travel\/Tulip_fest\/DSC_4213_tulips.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"631\" height=\"900\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"menu1\">\n<ul id=\"stores\" class=\"clearfix rMenu-hor rMenu\">\n<li class=\"page_item\"><a title=\"Buy now!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imagekind.com\/Tulips-Temple-of-Beauty_art?IMID=f5ee9f0d-f2d2-44f5-bc19-095987ca1c7f\" target=\"_blank\">Buy prints of this picture on Imagekind<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Tulip Town doesn\u2019t have such a beautiful garden, but it has vibrant striped fields.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2012\/Travel\/Tulip_fest\/DSC_4228_tulips.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"453\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" 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rMenu-hor rMenu\">\n<li class=\"page_item\"><a title=\"Buy now!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imagekind.com\/Tulip-field_art?IMID=cb6fca2d-25ab-4e0a-a3ed-5d0429852014\" target=\"_blank\">Buy prints of this picture on Imagekind<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2012\/Travel\/Tulip_fest\/DSC_4265_tulips.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"900\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2012\/Travel\/Tulip_fest\/DSC_4260_tulips.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"900\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There is a special children service in Tulip town, so if you need new ones or don\u2019t know what to do with existed ones, you are welcome (to try it).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2012\/Travel\/Tulip_fest\/DSC_4267_adv.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"709\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Daffodil field.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2012\/Travel\/Tulip_fest\/DSC_4223_daffondils.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"429\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And a couple of blooming crab-trees as a bonus for  those who made their way though all tulip fields.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2012\/Travel\/Tulip_fest\/DSC_4268_apple.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"565\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2012\/Travel\/Tulip_fest\/DSC_4236_apple.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"545\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"menu1\">\n<ul id=\"stores\" class=\"clearfix rMenu-hor 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href=\"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/?p=3875\">Tulip festival in Skagit 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