Nice photos, John. I particularly like the group of white tulips
with one coloured one placed just so.
Chris
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On 28 Mar 2006, at 01:41, John Hudson wrote:
>
> The bulb fields of the Skagit Valley are a joy to behold. Here are
> a few
> modest photos I took in late April 2002 during a day trip down from
> Vancouver.
>
> http://www.johnhudsonphoto.com/flowers03.html
>
> John Hudson
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike" <watershed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "1 Olympus Digest" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, 27 March, 2006 12:26 AM
> Subject: [OM] Re: OT - Seattle the end of April
>
>
>>
>> Bill,
>>
>> Weatherwise this is a real crap shoot as others have mentioned.
>> Weather
>> on Whidbey should be much better than in Seattle as it rains about
>> 1/2
>> as much there...at least on the northern half of the island.
>> Ordinarily
>> you could catch the tulip fields in the Skagit Valley on the way to
>> Whidbey but this year everything is early and the bloom will be
>> over by
>> mid to end of April. <http://www.tulipfestival.org/> Might be worth
>> pushing your dates up a few weeks if you can as the spring weather
>> will
>> be about the same from now til mid July :(. And the fields are
>> quite a
>> sight. Daffs are already about done. Don't plan on going to the
>> Olympics
>> unless you can squeeze in a few more days, It's a day just to get out
>> there from Seattle. The mountains are still snowed in (until June)
>> and
>> the beaches are wet, wet, wet. 5x more rain than Seattle! Instead
>> check
>> out Deception Pass, Ebbey's Landing or Fort Casey State Parks on
>> Whidbey
>> Isl. and/or take a short ferry ride over to Port Townsend. This
>> could be
>> made into a loop trip back to Seattle via Hood Canal bridge and
>> another
>> ferry ride.
>>
>> http://www.parks.wa.gov/parks/
>> http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/ferries/schedules/current/index.cfm?
>> route=pt-key
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
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