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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