In a message dated 4/9/01 12:47:38 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
Tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> But I think Ottawa is the largest outside of Holland. The public bed
> bulp count is at least 2,000,000.
HAS to be more than that in the Skagit Valley. Approx. 7,000 acres of them,
on several farms. Some are grown for bulbs, some for cut flowers that are
shipped all over the nation.
Actually, just a few miles west of the bulb fields, on Whidbey Island (where
the Navy P3 Orion and crew, now being held by China, came from) the annual
rainfall is about 17 inches a year. And just to the east of the bulb fields,
where the Cascade Mountains start, the annual rainfall is from 36 to 39
inches a year. Not more than 15 miles from place to place, as the crow flies.
This time of year, chances are you'll stand in glorious sunshine in the tulip
fields and see it raining off to the east in the mountains (but take a
jacket, hat, and bumbershoot, just in case).
<A HREF="http://www.tulipfestival.org/";>Skagit Valley Tulip Festival 2001</A>
(click on Gallery for pics)
Rich
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