Despite having lived here for over 20 years, I've travelled north to see the tulips in bloom only a few times. The first time was many years ago on a Sunday, possibly Easter Sunday, when the crowds were awful, and my small son had an ear ache. In subsequent years, work and weather combined to make the trip planning difficult. But I took a visiting friend a few years ago, and this year I have plenty of time, so last Monday, north we went. This spring has been cold, so we waited a couple of weeks in the hopes that the tulips would be "showing color", as the growers say. The day was gorgeous, sunny, dry, warm, windless.
The first field we came across was this - daffodils as far as the eye could see:
And here are tulips - there were also pink ones in a field farther back.
We went to the Roozengaarde display gardens. Most of the tulips there were out, and they were spectacular.
Traffic wasn't bad, although there were plenty of people in the gardens, and stopping to take pictures of the fields. All in all, a great way to spend a beautiful day.
The mountain was out:
And the tulips in my backyard are putting on a show, too:
