We visited the Thanksgiving Point Tulip Festival on four occasions after our workshop days this week. As the week passed, more and more of the 750,000 bulbs came into full bloom.
What we began to study, that I had never noticed before, was the beautiful artistry of nature to be found INSIDE the blooms of each tulip.
Not only the interior color variety, but the beautiful shapes of pistils and stamens made each kind of bloom was unique and spectacular.
We saw some tiny insects secretly working away at the pollen in some of these blossoms. What is it that attracts different one of them to different blossoms? One of the other great mysteries of nature.
When we started looking at the tulip blooms in this way, it multiplied both the time we were spending and the joy with which we admired them. No two were alike. We compared and smelled and were happy that our time here coincided with the Festival.
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