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
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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.
[…] With my 5 year service anniversary present from work, I recently ordered this. This has been on my wishlist for a couple years, I have been wishing for ever since I had some of those Poffertjes at my visit to the Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm. […]