They have some terrific and happy names for the flowers at the Roozengaarde Garden. You just can’t get happier than Yell Cheerfulness! YAY!
I’m taking some time out from my current project – hand sewing a funky pillow. It’s slow going, but it will be worth it. I like sewing this way, but it’s not for the impatient. I need lots of yell cheerfulness for that project. Too bad that name is already taken, or else I’d name the pillow that.
I’ll show you the pillow a bit later. It may be a gift in the near future, so I don’t want to spoil the surprise.
Mike’s more of a stickler for rule following than I am. I’m respectful of most rules. But here’s one I broke on Saturday.
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Just around the corner from the Roozengaarde Garden, we pulled over to see the field of tulips. It was just one field, but it was big. Other than this one, we only saw a couple of other fields of flowers – one of which was full of daffodils. I’m sure if we had followed the entire tulip route, we would have seen more. But this one was great – there were rows of pink, yellow and red tulips all in one spot.
A few more shots after the jump…
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I’m not sure of their real name, but I call these the Happy Easter Egg Tulips. I think naming tulips could be as much fun as naming eyeshadow or nail polish.
Along with editing more tulip photos today, we’ll be heading over to Langley for a little Easter dinner – always a good time and good eats.
I think it’s also important (as well as not really being related to tulips) to let you all know that since taking Donner to the vet earlier this week, and since he’s been taking his antibiotics, he’s been feeling MUCH better. His hooligan status has increased about 80% and he has earned himself a new nick-name – Donner the Dive Bomber. Oscar is able to keep up with him, and there’s been plenty of kitty wrastlin’, the sounds of cats running around the house and even some kitty shrieks which Mike has assured me is not the sounds of anyone getting hurt, they are just playing.
Donner woke me up this morning by running across my head while I was laying in the bed. I guess he had to get away from Oscar, and my face seemed to be on route out.
Happy Easter, everyone!
We got up really early this morning – at 5:30 – and hit the road about an hour later. It wasn’t too tough to get out of our cozy bed after the big storm last night because we were on our way to the United States. Rather than going to LaConner, I decided we should go to Roozengaarde in Mount Vernon. Just a side note – good going Roozengaarde for getting “tulips.com”. Excellent scoop on that domain name. They either snagged that early on or paid big bucks for it.
At our stop at the Border Crossing into the US, the guard was friendly.
US Border Guard looking at our passports: Where are you going today?
Me: To the Tulip Festival in Mt. Vernon!
US Border Guard: Oh no, Mike! How did she convince you to do that?
The border crossing at 7:00 am was about 45 minutes. Not bad – especially compared to yesterday.
We only had to drive about an hour past the border and into the countryside of Washington State. The weather was totally unstable – we hit rain, then hail, then overcast skies during that drive. I just hoped that we’d be able to get a break in the rain so we could take photos without having to haul out the umbrella or spend hours in the car waiting for it to stop raining.
Once we got to the display garden (with the windmill) the rain had passed for the time being and we all got our photos on:
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