Close Ups- Spring

These days we are enjoying spring here in Pacific North West with beautiful flowers around. And this week for Cee’s Fun Foto challenge I would like to share the close ups of the tulips recently captured at the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival.

 

 

 

 

 

Tulip Festival

Last weekend we visited the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival. This is a spring Tulip Festival near Mt. Vernon and is held annually, April 1 to April 30. This festival claims to be Washington’s largest, with over one million visitors each year.

We drove for about 1.5 hours to the festival venue to catch a glimpse of the wonderful tulips. There are many fields in the area and we visited RoozenGaarde. The place gets crowded later in the afternoon so we reached there early. The day was cloudy and slightly windy.

There were many wonderful colors of tulips with beautiful color combinations. We clicked lots of pictures and I found it difficult to select which ones to post as the tulips looked lovely in all. Hope you enjoy the virtual tour presented here.

This is a 3.5 acre display garden featuring authentic Dutch windmill.

Beautiful place to click pictures with family.

 

Fileds of Daffodils

Fields of tulips with variety of colors.

Seems like a painting of a beautiful scenery.

  

 

Loved taking this shot.

Walking around the rows of different colors of tulips.

Endless fields of tulips.

 

Yellow tulips were yet to be on their full bloom.

 

The show garden displayed the specialty tulips and different varieties.

 

Fiery little tulips

 

 

 

 

Charming statue of the little girl among the flowers.

 

 

Morning dew on the fresh tulips.

  

 

Tulips shaped windmill outside the gift shop.

The fields were colorful and we thoroughly enjoyed looking at all the different varieties of tulips. Let me know your favorite picture here.

This post also marks the 100th post on my blog and it feels awesome. I would like to thank all of you wonderful people who have motivated me along this journey. Cheers to All! 🙂

One Word Photo Challenge: Saffron

 

These pictures were taken at the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival at Washington last spring. However I am not sure what type of tulip is this. If you know its name please let me know.

Sharing here for Jennifer’s One Word Photo Challenge.

 

Cover Art

 

I know I am not a writer but If Ever a book is published by me it will be about my dreams and my inner thoughts echoed in Life.

This picture was taken in Summer 2013 at the Tulips festival at Skagit valley in Washington.

For this week’s Photo Challenge, stimulate your creative process and imagine which of your images you would like to see gracing the cover of a book, an album, or a magazine. Would the image inspire us to take a peek through the pages, listen to the music, or buy a ticket to the show? Would it strike a chord with viewers, making them reflect on or revisit memories of places, people, and experiences?

This is my contribution to the latest Weekly Photo Challenge from The Daily Post at WordPress.