A DANDELION SUPER-BLOOM
This is for
those of you lucky enough to live in Whatcom County, Washington – or lower
British Columbia. For anyone else what I
am about to suggest would entail an uncomfortably long trip.
Everybody
alive in NW Washington and able to read or watch TV knows that in spring (specifically:
right now) the tulip fields near Mt. Vernon and LaConner are in full flower,
and are a spectacular sight to see. This means that every day roughly 30,000 people pile into roughly 10,000 cars and head for the tiny
country lanes that traverse the LaConner tulip bonanza.
Often as not this results in traffic jams of epic proportions; I would
not be surprised to learn that whole families have starved to death waiting to
escape the tulip trap. And all for
nothing, because….
Rural roads
near Nooksack, Everson and Sumas open up vistas of green fields. However, right now they are covered with
dense carpets of golden dandelions!
Acres and acres of beautiful dandelions! You may hate dandelions when they punctuate
your lawn, but when they are the responsibility of someone else they are things
of beauty! Hop in your car and go see
them soon, before they mature into little white balls of sneeze-inducing,
wind-transported, seedlings. And the best
part: no traffic jams!
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