When my mom Gitzi visited last month, her dream was to once again visit the tulip fields of Skagit Valley during the Tulip Festival, which she had done on a previous visit years ago, and to be honest, it was a dream of mine as well.
Well being that visiting the tulip fields is truly an all day event, and being that we never actually had an 'all day' situation that allowed for it, we instead opted for visiting the myriad of amazingly beautiful local flower markets and nurseries that were all within half an hour's drive of my house...and we loved it!
All of these images are from our flower jaunts...and all are seen through the very talented and gifted shutter happy lens of Gitzi's eye.
When I was a baby, my mom was in photography school...and she has been taking gorgeous and interesting pictures ever since. I'm so thankful for the awareness and appreciation of surrounding beauty that she's instilled in me over the years, whether in nature or indoors. I can't imagine life without that awareness, it's been such a gift.
Our most very special, and final flower jaunt, was to Pike Place Market...and look what they had bushels of...Field Tulips! from the very fields we had wanted to visit!!!
Need I say, we were in tulip heaven...
Tulips - Tulips everywhere...
Rows and rows...
Bucketfuls of tulips...
Striped tulips...
Pointy tipped tulips...
Voluminously stunning double tulips...
And even some lovely double daffodils thrown in for some sweet variety.
My mom was absolutely thrilled with it all, and so was I...we couldn't have asked for a more special day, and to me, it was our Mother's Day, since we won't be able to spend the official one together.
Here's wishing everyone of you a very special and Happy Mother's Day, filled with lovely times of memories being made, or lovely memories of special times past...may the warmth and love of this day shine in those memories and bless your hearts...as ours have been. ♥
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