The Keukenhof is a beautiful garden located near Leiden (it's actually closer to Lisse) in the Netherlands. On the way to the Keukenhof, one can expect to see a veritable sea of tulips of various magnificent colours... except this year. Well actually, I should qualify this statement by saying that the magnificent colours were there up until probably just recently.
You see, the Netherlands and its residents have been the beneficiaries of some unseasonably warm temperatures over the last few weeks. And while everyone (including myself) has been enjoying it, some of the repercussions were lost on me. That is to say, because it's been so nice weather wise, all the flowers have bloomed early and were cut & gone by the time I got to the Keukenhof last weekend. Egads.
Who knew that the incomparable sights pictured above would be rendered into a vast wasteland of culled botanical heartache? Seriously, who could have predicted this??? Perhaps an expert on flower stuff or some Dutch person from the Netherlands but, certainly not I.
However as you can hopefully see from the photos, Monica, Becca and I did make the most of it and had a good time in the process.
Teeks
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