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Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm Tulip Festival

Today kicks off the beginning of the Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm’s Tulip Festival 2014! Of course, this coincides with a big rainy week in Portland right now, but don’t worry. The festival lasts March 28-May 4th, so you have time. I kept checking the weather until I found one that suited me. I also advise you to go early if you can if you want to get shots like this where there are less people in the background.

These photos are not from this year, but I thought it would be a nice summary of what you might expect to see there. Unfortunately my visit was on a semi-clear day so I couldn’t get any gorgeous snow capped mountains in the background, but maybe you can! You can also check the Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm site because they often post with a little report of their current field conditions.

Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm Tulip Festival (previous year visit)

Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm- Tulip Festival

Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm – Tulip Festival

Lest you think all I do is eat, last weekend beside also attending Cheers to Belgian Beers, I also visited Woodburn to fill my May Day with flowers at the Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm’s Tulip Festival.

The bounty of natural beauty you can reach from the Portland area, from gorge with a roaring river to snow capped mountain to seaside, and then add these various farms with fields of flowers, is really fulfilling in a way I didn’t know was empty when I lived in the midwest. I can’t say enough about how beautiful Portland can be.

The Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm gets pretty crowded by late morning, but if you go in the early morning, you might find very few people (I guess families still bundling their kids into the car), so that’s when I suggest you go to get the endless fields photos like I did below.

Tulips

Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm- Tulip Festival

Poffertjes?!

Although… speaking of eating. There was a little snackity food that I really liked. Poffertjes are small puff pancakes from Holland. We got two versions, poffertjes with butter and sugar, and with then poffertjes with berries/hold the whipped cream but can get it with whipped cream are shown below. As you can see, they are made fresh right in front of you and served warm from the special puff grill. YUM.

Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm- Tulip Festival Poffertjes at the Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm- Tulip Festival