Skagit Valley Tulip Festival
I thought I’d give you a quick peek at our yearly pilgrimage to the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival. We had a lovely day of sunshine and could have spent it packing, grading, finishing up proposals and papers, but decided instead to pack a bowl of popcorn, some macaroons, and make an escape for a few hours to the wheeling eagles, herons, and snow geese, tulips and daffodils in Skagit. Here are a couple of pics. Sometimes taking a few hours out of your real life reminds you of the things that are really important, the moments the air smells like narcissus and hyacinth, the sun on top of snowy mountains and the shine of snow geese in the sky.
Jeannine Hall Gailey served as the second Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington and the author of Becoming the Villainess, She Returns to the Floating World, Unexplained Fevers, The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, and winner of the Moon City Press Book Prize and SFPA’s Elgin Award, Field Guide to the End of the World. Her latest, Flare, Corona from BOA Editions, was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. She’s also the author of PR for Poets, a Guidebook to Publicity and Marketing. Her work has been featured on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily and The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poetry, and JAMA.
