2008 Skagit Valley Tulip Festival

With cooler weather reportedly causing the flowers to open a little later this Spring, we anxiously waited until today to make our visit to this year's Skagit Valley Tulip Festival.

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Starting our afternoon with the scenic drive along Chuckanut Drive as we headed South to reach the rural farm roads of the Skagit Valley, after a brief sight-seeing tour through the town of La Conner, we worked our way up and down, back and forth, along the marked "Tulip Route". Passing row after row of colorful blooms - fields filled with bright red tulips, giant yellow tulips, striped orange and yellow tulips, deep purple tulips, soft pink tulips and even fields of daffodils. We stopped from time to time in order to get out and walk through some of those fields so we could get a closer look at those beautiful flowers.

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Mike at a bright red tulip field.

Yellow tulips.

Majel at the bright red tulip field.

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My 2008 Tulip Festival photos.

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Today's "Bloom Map".

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A close-up of the red tulips.

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