The Landscape of my Life

By: rcmom

Jul 08 2011

Category: Family, Nature's Glory, Photography, Summer, Tulips

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So I went to Seattle. Um, just a few (3) months ago. I’m finally editing the photos. My mom had told me before I went that she and my stepdad went to a tulip farm. And I thought they only happened in Holland. Forgive my ignorance. So I got VERY excited about the possibility of seeing fields of tulips. They did NOT disappoint. I have a ton of tulip pictures that I’m getting through. I thought I would get sick of them but there’s something about them I love. Mostly the colors. The rows and rows of gorgeous, colorful tulips. LOVE.

This is one of my favorite pictures, out of the almost 900 that I took. We were at a smaller tulip farm, and there were CLEAR signs warning against walking in the rows. There were… volunteers? maybe? With handy jackets so it was clear who was and was not allowed to walk in the rows of the Precious Tulips. Well… I’m a photographer. Who wanted a picture, a certain picture, of a certain tulip. I didn’t have my zoom and even if I did, well, it wouldn’t have worked. I’m also the daughter of my mother, who has quite the mischievous side to her. So, yeah. I went in the rows. For this tulip. Worth it.

We didn’t get arrested, or banned from tulip farms. Just asked if I could please stay out of the rows of tulips. Ahem. We left shortly after, but headed to bigger tulip farms where they let you walk in the rows, and even lay down in them. That happened too.