Spring has come early to Iowa this year.  The Pella Tulip time won’t be until May 3 but most of the tulips will be dead by then.  Since we were in Pella to buy supplies for our yard, we stopped long enough to see the tulips on April 21.  We only took photos of flowers that still were in good shape although about 1/3 of them were already gone.

This little girl's parents were taking her photo in her Dutch dress with the tulips before they were gone. 

Marla, my sister-in-law took a photo of my tulips with her camera before we left AZ but I thought that we had plenty of time to photograph them when we arrived on April 13. As you know the hailstorm of April 14 did extensive damage to our house.  The tulips by the mailbox looked like this one day after the storm.