So about the Tulip Festival at Thanksgiving Point . . .

For the last few weeks I’ve been daydreaming of the arrival of the beautiful tulips, flittering butterflies and the sweet smell of lilacs on the breeze. Truth is, springtime around here has been a slow poke. One day it is 80 degrees, the next day 40 and snowing. Yikes! For good reason, the tulips have been delayed– and I am no horticulturist, but I understand that it just isn’t prime tulip season. We only have one tulip bulb in our yard and it just bloomed. It was a tulip left over from the previous owners about 4 years ago. (Go figure?) Lacking in tulips, we rely upon the Gardens at Thanksgiving Point to fill that need.

So we waited all of last week to allow a little more time for the tulips to wake up. Friday was gorgeous weather and we could wait no longer. The receptionist at the gardens said the tulips were at about 19 percent. I figured that 19% of 250,000 bulbs still adds up to quite a lot. So we went.

There weren’t a whole lotta tulips YET. If you can imagine, there will be tulips by the bushel in a week or so. I did manage to get some fun shots nonetheless, and we enjoyed ourselves immensely. My mother was in town and helped to keep the kidlets in one place, allowing me to shoot away.

{My little photographer’s assistant: capturing her own piece of the tulip mania}

{Each one facing a different direction. Counting me, we’ve got the north-south-east-west covered! This is what I call “lack of posing” or “not willing to hold still.”}

{Thanks Mom for this shot of my handsome little guy and my wind-swept hair. I love M’s expression here!}

{My cutie pies at the fountain inside the secret garden. A. made a wish and plopped a coin into the water. S. did too- though her coin toss was too fast for me to capture! She asked me today with a tone of dissappointment, “Why didn’t my wish come true?” I urged her to be patient, as some wishes take a long time.}

{Welcome to the secret garden . . . I can’t show you everything inside, as it wouldn’t be a secret! I can say that I dream of having one of my own some day!}

{Mmmmm. Springtime.}

{M. crawling down the steep grassy hillside. Most kids rolled sideways, he just met it head on. Atta boy!}

{Grandma won M. over on this trip . . . he’s known for being quite the Mama’s boy, so it was a nice break for me!}

{Sweet girl- love this one!}

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