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.

On a cool drizzly early spring morning, there were plenty of beautiful sights in the garden, from honking geese to blooming flowers of various varieties (including, yes, rhododendrons). Oh, and one huge nutria.

An award-winning farm that ships irises all over world, with custom hybrid varieties that you cannot find anywhere else. If you are like me and love the smell of irises, this farm is a heavenly place to visit. Bring your nose!

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

Springtime flowers are made for this wild weather, and do not even seem to notice…

My favorite season at the Leach is springtime, when the first flowers appear and everything is deep, bright green…

About 80 acres, separated out into different sections like “wetlands” and “conifers” and so on. A lot to take it…

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

Rhododendrons and magnolias and daffodils and countless other flowers were blooming and the aromas were wonderful…