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Some minor dulling of the Skagit tulipgloss

Springtime ritual: Let spirits soar, lawsuits bloom!

Tulip fields at Tulip Valley Farm with a "I love Tulips!" at the center.
Tulip fields at Tulip Valley Farm had yet to fully bloom as of April 7. The cold and misty weather has delayed the bloom of the tulips this year in Skagit Valley. (Hailey Hoffman/Cascadia Daily News)
By Ron Judd Executive Editor
CONTENT WARNING: The following contains decidedly non-flowery and non-reverential, cantankerous, and possibly sacrilegious references to tulips and broader tulip-kind. The author pre-regrets errors in judgment.  Tulip Festival? Bah-humbulb. We’re probably off on the wrong foot there amid Northwest Washingtonians, who look upon April’s apprehensive poking up of the tulips from the fecund soils of the central Skagit Valley as a literal rite of spring, rite of passage, probably even

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