In the previous post I showed you some beautiful pictures (I hope) form the Skagit Valley Tulip festival. What the pictures don’t show is how much effort is involved in taking a nice picture when huge crowds of people are involved. Let me explain:
Each of the tulip farms/tulip fields that we went to had a sign similar to these ones posted where everybody could easily see it:

Now, what do you suppose happened when ‘the people’ saw these signs? Probably it takes a lot of work to keep those fields in good shape for everyone to enjoy (not to mention the amount of work involved in actually raising growing the tulips). So you would expect that people obey the signs. After all, we all obey, for example, traffic signs, right?
Now, let’s do a small exercise of lateral thinking by looking at the following pictures:

I will stop at these 4 pictures. I have roughly 50 on my camera, some of them intentionally taken, but most of them because I had no other choice. How cool is that?
So I kept thinking: What the fudge? What part of stay ‘out of rows’ is unclear? What part of ‘do not pick up the flowers’ is unclear?
Watching these beautiful creatures enjoying the sun and roaming the tulip fields, I genuinely had the sensation that I was back in Romania. I thought that only there you can find such disrespect for a simple, clear instruction. Well… surprise, surprise. I guess in the end it’s human nature not give 2 shits about the person next to you. You did pay 5 dollars to get access to the fields right? It’s your God given right to walk among the tulips, right?
And, in the end, if you do want to give a shit, although nobody else does, you can certainly do that too: