NETHERLANDS

It was something akin to a first sighting during a whale watch. A yelp! Some “oohs” and “aahs”! A clamoring and bustling to get a better view, a better camera shot.

Off to the left, bleeding solid red to the horizon. I found myself joining the slack jaws, because no one is prepared for the sight of ten thousand tulips of a solid color, sometimes red, or yellow, or white, changing the flat canvas of the field into a three-dimensional portrait. . . .CONTINUE

 

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Photo © Ellie Hilferty 2001

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