Obviously Janine and I played the part to the T. With cameras in tow and tulips in sight, we started looking for the “shots” to capture the willing models. I was totally amused at all the characters that were hitting her up for money. When in a situation like this, I've learned how to avoid interacting with them. I simply keep my mouth shut.
Since I totally look like a typical Japanese tourist with glasses, camera and a smile on my face, no one knows if I can speech English or not. They do not bother me and leave me alone.
Janine roared with laughter when I told her my trick. Too bad she cannot use it too.
The tulips were planted in squared off beds. Not as spectacular as looking at the myriad of color in the tulip fields of the Netherlands. But it was nice to see all the different colors. One of the things that helped the color pop more was the use of different colors in the under plantings.
There is something about seeing bunches of the same color together. It draws your eyes right in. The visual stimulation creates an excitement and joy in seeing color everywhere you look. I was a very happy camper.
The air is so much drier in Colorado than in the Midwest. It didn't take long before we could feel dehydration setting in. We went off in search of something to drink. We found a great Tea shop right around the corner called Ku Cha. (Cha means tea in Japanese.) They had a tea room on the second floor.We decided to try some teas and have some appetizers too.
It was a great place to plop our bodies down and sip our tea. The room was very peaceful and calm. Water from the fountain was a wonderful sound too.
I bought some of the Oolong tea Janine had for her to take home.
Later I bought the Chai Tea I was drinking. It was the best Chai Tea I've ever had. The tea list to choose from was not just one Oolong Tea, it had a whole list of them. Same with the list for Chai Teas.
One of the things I still marvel about this trip was being able to capture the uniqueness of some of the tulips. The white tulips with the red veins had some of the most unique patterns I've seen in tulips. The red markings reminded me of bird feathers and flower veining. It looked like something a watercolorist would paint.
The soft unfolding of the petals on this pink tulip made it one of my favorite tulips. Most tulip leaves curl inward, not outward. I love the color of this tulip as well as the shape of it. Very unlike a typical tulip.
These orange, yellow and cream tulips shone as the sunlight lit them up. It turned out to be a gorgeous day. These colors brightened up my spirit and made me smile.
Each of these tulips shone brightly. Together they were breathtaking to look at. I wish they would have had a smell. It would have been intoxicating.
How could you look at beds and beds of these colors and not smile?
The most precious picture I took was the tulip reaching up toward the sun. It was as if that tulip connected to the sun and the sun shone down on it. That tulip was aglow with a fiery orange red that was everywhere in that bed but the only tulip that truly captured the essence of the luminosity
was that tulip. It was on fire with Light. And I was the only one to see it and acknowledge the Light shining from that tulip. It's these little things in Life that make Life so special and worth living. Talk about living in the Light. Perfect example.
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love the orange tulip.. I feel that is how my life starting to shape itself. Upwards, opening slowly,allowing the light to come back in.
ReplyDeleteyeah, me too. This year, my whole apple cart got turned upside down. Everything I hoped and dreamed for fell out of my cart. Feel like I'm starting from scratch again. Decided to upgrade the apple cart so nothing will fall out now.
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