Frolicking with tulips on a perfect spring morning. This is post two of two, and it features the 85mm photographs.

Frolicking with tulips on a perfect spring morning. This is post one of two, and it features the 50mm photographs.

We visited the fabulous tulip fields during one of the all-time coolest and wettest Aprils on record…

It’s springtime in Oregon and that means of course it is time to return to the annual Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival in the farmlands outside of Woodburn.

What is more fun than rows and rows of spectacular tulips…

Every spring in Oregon a magical thing happens: the Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm near Woodburn opens its gates to the public for its annual tulip festival...

At sunrise with a lovely veil of fog. Paradise...

Tulips never disappoint. And the Wooden Shoe farm is one of my favorite Northwest destinations...

It was a gloriously sunny morning in April 2016, so it was a good idea to return to the Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival in Woodburn, Oregon. We arrived a little after sunrise; a thick fog was still there, though burning off quickly, and four hot air balloons were landing and taking off among the tulips. You couldn't ask for anything more lovely.

In March 2016 the Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm opened its annual tulip fest, where you can walk among the flowers in all their dazzling glory. So many colors. So intense, so beautiful. One of the best places in the Pacific Northwest.