I'm going to backtrack quite a bit now, but it will be brief. We have not mentioned any of the road trips we've made this spring, so this is intended to bring you up-to-date. About a month ago, we drove north to the Skagit valley to view the tulips. It is not common knowledge that Washington State is one of the world centers of tulip bulb cultivation, but it is. They grow vast fields of tulips, "top" them to remove the bloom and concentrate the energy of the plant into the bulb, and sell the bulbs all over the world. We went with our friends Gabi, Mary and John. After viewing the tulips, we had lunch at a pub Patrick and I have been going to since our Bellingham days called the Edison Inn. The most interesting thing about the trip was the huge numbers of East Indian and Russian immigrants who drove out to see the tulips. We don't know why, but it seemed to be a significant thing for both of those groups to get out among the flowers. Even men from those countries were having their pictures taken with the flowers.
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