Evening at Wooden Shoe
by Nick Boren
Title
Evening at Wooden Shoe
Artist
Nick Boren
Medium
Photograph - Nikon Digital Image
Description
As evening approaches, a full moon shows itself in the eastern skies, surrounded by acres of beautiful tulips.
Every spring, people from all over the world come to see these beautiful fields. Peak color is usually around the 15th of April depending upon weather conditions.
These beautiful fields are located about 6 miles east of Woodburn Oregon.
From Wikipedia:
Tulips (Tulipa) are a genus of spring-blooming perennial herbaceous bulbiferous geophytes (having bulbs as storage organs). The flowers are usually large, showy and brightly colored, generally red, pink, yellow, or white (usually in warm colors). They often have a different colored blotch at the base of the tepals (petals and sepals, collectively), internally. Because of a degree of variability within the populations, and a long history of cultivation, classification has been complex and controversial. The tulip is a member of the lily family, Liliaceae, along with 14 other genera, where it is most closely related to Amana, Erythronium and Gagea in the tribe Lilieae. There are about 75 species, and these are divided among four subgenera. The name "tulip" is thought to be derived from a Persian word for turban, which it may have been thought to resemble by those who discovered it. Tulips originally were found in a band stretching from Southern Europe to Central Asia, but since the seventeenth century have become widely naturalised and cultivated (see map). In their natural state they are adapted to steppes and mountainous areas with temperate climates. Flowering in the spring, they become dormant in the summer once the flowers and leaves die back, emerging above ground as a shoot from the underground bulb in early spring.
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April 19th, 2022
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