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Here are some photos from my visit last week to Longwood Gardens. The tulips were up and in full bloom.

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This is my favorite tulip this year:

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This is my second favorite:

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It was hard to choose, though:

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Of course there were lots of other interesting things coming up:

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thanks for posting them here.

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joe shikspack's picture

as the news seems to be getting progressively more annoying lately, i've been needing to "stop and smell the roses" more frequently. i hope folks enjoy them.

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mimi's picture

my trip to Longwood Gardens, but each time you post photos from there, I ask myself why I still haven't gone there myself. What is the last photo? What's coming up there?

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joe shikspack's picture

we used to call them fiddlehead ferns, but i'm sure that there's a more correct name for them.

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NCTim's picture

They served fiddle head ferns. They didn't really appeal to me, so I passed. Everyone who ate them got sick. Fiddle head ferns are exceedingly difficult to clean and the restaurant served up some bacteria infested ferns.

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shaharazade's picture

kind of funny in a decadent way. My neighborhood getting more and more upscale and the food is getting sillier and sillier. We have a new trendy food cart down the street that's called Cave Man and serves exotic meat. There is a store where I buy my' local whole grain bread that now sells fiddle-head ferns.

I'm a health food nut but not a trendy upscale foodie and a lot of this trendy haute cuisine upscale food is frankly almost as inedible as fast food. I do eat local and organic and it's getting harder and harder to find healthy food in the so called healthy lifestyle upscale stores like Whole Food or New Seasons.

Yesterday I found out that Nestle owns Pellegrino which I drink a lot of. I'm so depressed I think I'll go eat some fiddle heads or have a rare goat meat sandwich. Actually I'm going back to shopping at People's a local co-op that has great local produce and no a fiddlehead fern's or goat meat.

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joe shikspack's picture

but it would seem that in order to thoroughly clean them, you'd have to completely unfurl them which would probably break them up.

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gulfgal98's picture

I marvel at your photography skills. Many years ago, I had the chance to visit Longwood Gardens and they are spectacular. At the time I went, they had the dahlia show and it was amazing. Smile

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joe shikspack's picture

the dahlia show should be coming up in the summer. last year's show was quite nice and i took a couple of "keeper" photos that i'm really happy with.

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JayRaye's picture

For bringing a bit of beauty into our lives.

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