April Tulips at Skagit Valley

Every month of each season has its own uniqueness, and there are some places that can expose that quintessence the best possible way.

Every year we devote the month of April to the tulip fields at the Skagit Valley. The only two reasons inspire us to do the same trips year after a year for the several weekends in a row. Each reason, though, has a very deep meaning for us.

April is the time when nature actively wakes up after winter break. If winter season doesn’t spoil us with luminosity and purity of white snow in northwest, and range of winter colors are restricted to the diapason of the different hues of grey and the spots of green that come from evergreen trees, then spring brings unimaginable palette of all existed colors with the explosion of the flowers and trees blooming.

In addition to the spring blooming we are impatiently tending to the bright light and warmth of the sun.

Northwest April is not usually give us all we want and continue to test our patience with clouds, rain, and wind. But, even in Northwest there are some spots that don’t follow the normal tend of the weather laws.

One of those rear places where blooming explosions and sun breakouts meet together is the Skagit Valley.

We would walk on the flower fields healing in the tender fragrance of tulips, and, then, being in a haze, dizzy, and tired, we would quietly sit on the edge of the most beautiful tulip field and look at the sun through the tulips’ petals; or if the heavy clouds hide the sun shine, we would observe the flowers because their colors become very vivid, almost unreal, reflecting the silver glow of the clouds. 

 

The Tulip adventure doesn’t end at the fields. After flower therapy, we would go to the one of the many other great places nearby. When we leave home, we never know where our choice falls. It could be downtown of La Corner where we would walk through the shopping galleries and have dinner out at one of the local restaurants, or it could be Bay View trail that runs along the bay shore where easy to observe wildlife,  

or it could be one of the Deception Pass’s beaches where after having a lunch we would more likely to take a short nap under the sound of the waves and then go for a hike. 

 

Or, it could be anything else… we never know.

 

We come to the tulip fields again and again not “to LOOK” at the flowers, but “to BE” the part of the very exceptional moment of a year season.