Tiptoe Through the Tulips

If you are ever in the Seattle area in the first few weeks of April, a must see (in our opinion) is to go up to the Skagit Valley and see all the tulips blooming in hundreds of acres of fields. It is an amazing sight to see--rows and rows of colorful tulips as far as the eye can see.

The Skagit valley is 60 miles north of Seattle and some of the pioneer settlers in this area come from Holland. They brought their farming traditions as well as raising tulips and other flowers. They now sell their bulbs all over the world and they ship fresh flowers to Pike Place market and other areas each day.

Skagit Valley 2007

One of our favorite places to go is Tulip Town. Here you can catch a tractor ride through fields of tulips. Inside there are murals of the same scenery you could see if you walked outside.


I think our favorite tulip color is red. It is just stunning to see what are seemingly endless fields of red tulips.

Alyssa took this photo of us. Not bad eh? Perhaps a career as a photographer is in her future.

Alyssa is our only child that actually likes to pose for the camera! You probably will see many pictures of her since she is the only one to stay still long enough.

Natalie "tiptoeing" through the tulips.

The Evans called us and said they had come up. We met and went to Roozengaarde.

The boys riding the bull"frog".

Here are my favorite "two-lips".

See ya next year, tulips!