Jim, Thanks! We got lucky, and had some time earlier in the week. The tulip season was pretty late this year. When we first arrived, the flowers in most fields were still closed. But the light was better on those days. La Conner once flourished as a fishing and shipping port. There also used to be, until recently, a pea processing plant. Most of the local farms would supply the pea crop. In the '70s it became an artist community when writer Tom Robbins moved there from Seattle. Later the tourists flooded in. Harald
Jim wrote: Great photos. I drove up from Portland to see them last Saturday. I avoided the horrendous daytime traffic on I-5 through the Tacoma-Seattle-Everett area by driving really early in the morning (around 2AM). The lighting conditions for me were cloudy-bright unlike the sunny days you had for your photos. Glad I rode the Tulip Transit buses instead of driving to the various floral farms. La Connor is interesting. What industry sustained the town before it settled on the tourist dollars? Jim A. - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
