Tulips tulips...everywhere (well not everywhere this year)

It's April already and it's time to visit those wonderful, beautiful tulips of Skagit Valley. So, this morning, I joined my friend to go see the tulips. We took a risk on the weather factor, it was forecasted to be a rainy day. But as usual, the north-west weather deceived the forecasters and the day was as bright as it can be. It was a perfect day for an outing. As the title says, I was a bit disappointed that the tulips were not everywhere in the Skagit valley as the year before. But it was the same beautiful blooms. You'll forget for a moment, who you are, where you are and what you are doing when you see something beautiful. Imagine seeing hundreds and thousands of such beautiful things in massive colors of red, yellow, purple, pink tulips and white and yellow daffodils...trying to explain what I felt that time, I don't think that I got it right ;-) probably I should stop trying and steal the words of Wordsworth...just imagine tulips wherever you read daffodils

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never - ending line
Along the margin of a bay;
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they
Out - did the sparkling waves in glee.
A poet could not be but gay.
In such a jocund company;
I gazed - and gazed - but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought;

For often when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

...and yes we have captured the moment digitally and will be the bliss of solitude whenever I gaze upon them.

later