As you know last week I drove up to Mount Vernon to photograph some tulips, but the fields and fields of tulips I went to see hadn’t come into bloom yet.  What’s interesting is that I found out today that the flowers have all come out, right now it’s beautiful up there!  So I only missed it by 5 days – typical.

However, there were a few tulips starting to come out in gardens in some of the places we visited.  One example is below, I shot these flowers in Roozengaarde.

I think there were around 50 out – how funny is that!  And as you can see they were really just starting to open.  Anyway, I’m going back this weekend to get the pictures I wanted, only this time I’m taking the family with me.  Now this is always a challenge.  Lisa, James and Abi are all OK at first, they know I want to take pictures and for the first 10 minutes everything is fine.  But after that the complaining starts “Why do you take so long”, “you took that one already”, “what are you doing now”, “this is really boring” … you get the idea.

So I have to keep moving so they don’t turn on me.  Trouble is one part of me wants to go on my own and the other part really wants them to go with me.  Who knows I may even take some nice shots of them in the flowers too – we’ll have to see.

I think the Halo dudes where bored at work today, I left my office for 10 minutes and came back to find Carter trying to microwave Master Chief!