Earth Day Vibes - Skagit Valley Tulip Festival

My best friend came for a quick visit.  I was shocked to hear that in the dozen or so times that she has visited me, never has it been warm and sunny. 

This time she was leaving sunny and 80-ish weather and coming to...sunny and 80-ish weather! 
What better way to show off Washington in all her glory than to take her to the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival.  

so.much.beauty.

In honor of Earth Day today - enjoy your (our) stroll through the tulips.  
(Side note - all photos were taken with my phone camera - and none do them justice!)

Then God said, "Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear"; and it was so,
God called the dry land earth, and the gathering of the waters He called seas; and God saw that it was good.
Then God said, "Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit after their kind with seed in them"; and it was so.
The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit with seed in them, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.
There was evening and there was morning  a third day.
Genesis 1: 9-13

For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.
Romans 1:20