Smooth Passage
by Connie Handscomb
Title
Smooth Passage
Artist
Connie Handscomb
Medium
Photograph - Photography - Fine Art
Description
There is no key to happiness. The door is always open.
~ Mother Teresa
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The tulip grew wild and abundantly in the central Asia mountains, in China & Mongolia, in North Africa, and later throughout Europe. Tulip designs have been found on pottery dating back to 2200 BC. The Netherlands is not the home of the tulip: it was actually first cultivated in Turkey, grown in the palace gardens of the sultans, and is the national flower of Hungary, Turkey & the "Tulip state" Kyrgyzstan.
Turkey held the first tulip festival , and today, 15 groups with approximately 2,600 varieties of tulips exist, with Holland exporting 60% of the world's tulips.
Sources:
Fifty Plants that changed the Course of History (Bill Laws)
Four Chefs, One Garden : Seasons Of West Coast Living [Roy]
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Captured on a calm spring morning, the last of one of my tulips looking smooth and serene as the day it was waking up to.
Unedited; uncropped; nature in all her splendour ;)
💕 Heartfelt Gratitude to Roses And Tulips for featuring this image
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June 23rd, 2016
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