Tip Toe through the Tulips

Just a couple of days before the tulip festival, before the sea of tourist will descend on the capital city of Ottawa, I walked on this cool spring day with just a few people about. Oh, words cannot describe the beauty that enfolded me as I walked by the Rideau Canal and Dow's Lake.

The myriad of colors, yellow, white, red, fuscia, purple, orange, pink, bi-colored and there were two beds of peonies, I thought. Closer inspection revealed, the Monte Carlo which was yellow, multi-petaled  and the red Miranda. I have never seen tulips that were like rosettes, before. Many of the varieties were scented, too. This year, Holland's queen will be the guest of honor at the festival. It was her mother who has sent millions of tulips bulbs every year in thanksgiving to the Canadian people who sheltered her and her little daughters during World War II.

O what a feast for the senses! Ottawa has definitely been transformed to a huge beautiful flower garden.