Skagit Valley Tulip Earrings Featured in Etsy Treasury

Many thanks to Kitty of PrettybyKitty for featuring Bumbershoot Design's Skagit Valley Tulip Earrings in an Etsy treasury and on her blog.  Etsy treasuries are time limited, so a great way to view this collection is on Kitty's blog, here. Skagit Valley Tulip Earrings are regularly available at Bumbershoot Designs, so if they show as sold when you click on the direct link, just contact me.

The inspiration for these earrings comes from the gorgeous tulip fields in the Skagit Valley just north of Seattle.

Tulips are blooming now, if you want to visit, check out the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival here.

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week

(Skagit Valley tulips)

And tulips, children love to stretch

Their fingers down, to feel in each

Its beauty’s secret nearer.

~E. B. Browning—A Flower in a Letter.

Nature's Awakening. Think Monday Think ATC

This is my posting for this week's challenge "Nature's Awakening" at Think Monday - Think ATC.  Background is painted with watercolor paints, tulip doodled on scrap receipt paper, letters are rub ons, with doodling, and ribbon embellishment.

To me, tulips are a classic symbol of spring awakening, and they are celebrated here in the Pacific Northwest because just north of Seattle in the Skagit Valley, there are acres and acres of them.  The Skagit Valley Tulip Festival runs April 1-30 every year, and in just a little while it will look like this:

If you are interested in visiting, see the festival web site for more information and "bloom maps" so you can visit when the flowers are at their peak.  You will see every color of tulip imaginable, maybe even a blue one :)

Yet more snow...but a little spring too

From sunny skies at Alki Beach, to this:


Our poor hummingbirds:

I know this is nothing compared to what many parts of the country receive (I grew up near Buffalo), but it's been a lot of cold this year for Seattle.

But I know spring is coming. Just a couple of days ago I was walking at Discovery Park and the place smelled like the inside of a greenhouse, all wet and warm and green. And, it's only about 1 month until the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival.

So today, in anticipation and for inspiration, I spent some time with tulips.

Like this:

And this: