the whole tulip thing

Sean and I have been hearing about "the tulips!" for months. The Skagit Valley is apparently the largest producer of tulips in the world, and folks here have been anticipating their annual arrival since, well, our arrival in the valley. Not plants to be rushed, "the tulips!" were late this year, sleeping through the visit from the in-laws and half of April as well. But they're here now, so Sean and I rode our bikes out to a local farm yesterday to check them out.

Now this is a garden!
The flowers were definitely cool, but the most entertaining event was this canine photo shoot. Sean looked at me and said, with a bit of affectionate disdain, "You'd do something like that, wouldn't you?"
Although I soooooo wanted to deny that I would ever employ a professional photographer to document my dog, I just couldn't quite do it. Oh dear. Oh well. The conflict within was amusing, to say the least.

Either way, we were glad to finally see "the tulips!". They're lovely.