• Evidence of Spring

Posted: **Sat Mar 28, 2015 5:43 pm**

I flew my wife up to the Skagit Valley today to see the tulip fields. Some fields were doing well, but most seem a week or two away from peak bloom. The daffodils were out though. Not a bad way to burn a couple gallons of 100LL...

Posted: **Sun Mar 29, 2015 6:16 am**

That is spectacular

Posted: **Sun Mar 29, 2015 8:14 am**

That is beautiful. For all the years I've lived up here, I have not made it out there to see the tulips bloom. You inspired me. Maybe I will take a ride out there today. Thanks for sharing the nice pictures.

Posted: **Sun Mar 29, 2015 9:36 am**

My wife's reaction when I showed her the picture "Wow...how long does it take to fly there?"

Posted: **Sun Mar 29, 2015 10:55 am**

Wow! Very nice. Love the colors!

Most of our show is gone here but the rivers haven't broken up yet and it is still freezing every night.

Posted: **Thu Apr 02, 2015 5:45 pm**

Mixed weather today so we drove over to Sequim. On the way home we stopped at Diamond Point Airpark (2WA1) and saw another sign of spring. This isn't 1 or 2 deer, this is a whole stinking herd on the runway. Time to introduce wolves or bows & arrows to the airpark!

Posted: **Fri Apr 03, 2015 12:36 am**

Spectacular colours flyhound. Now you can level with us, that middle photo has a windmill, I'd swear it's made of Lego.

Posted: **Fri Apr 03, 2015 7:52 pm**

crbnunit: No Legos there, but I can see why you'd think I'm shooting pictures of a diorama at LegoLand. The town of Mount Vernon, WA turns into a little Holland during the Tulip Festival. That shot of the windmill and flowers is at the Roozengaarde nursery, and they run a very Scandinavian operation. Now that smoking weed recreationally is legal in Washington State it is more like Amsterdam than ever. I prefer to stay at altitude over the masses of festival goers. Here's the link to their website:

http://www.tulips.com/about_us_directions

And here's the guide to the Tulip Festival:

http://www.tulipfestival.org/multimedia

Posted: **Sun Apr 05, 2015 10:14 am**

April 4th, Anchorage, Alaska. All of my neighbors were out removing the last traces of snow/ice from their property, washing driveways adn raking leaves... Commented to Chris next door; "You are acting like it is spring!" He replies; "It IS spring!" We go get the woman's tires changed from winter studs to summer tires.

Wake up this morning, April 5th, Anchorage, Alaska to 3" of snow with big, fluffy flakes falling from the sky!