Tulip Time in Skagit Valley

Wednesday saw us join Dori, Emi, and Nate on a road trip to the tulip fields to the north. Most fields had already been cut, but one farm still was showing blooms. The kids liked watching the penned llamas and sniffing the flowers. I liked the expansiveness of the color landscape.

On the way home, we stopped at the side of the road to observe the largest gaggle of snow geese we had ever seen. From a distance on the drive up, the skein appeared as a moving white cloud ebbing and flowing above the horizon. As we were driving back, the geese were conveniently parked by the side of the road, allowing Debby to roll down the window and get these images. Meanwhile, I got out and observed an eagle eyeing the gaggleplex (very large number of geese) from a tree across the road.