View WA State tulips during monthlong festival

The Seattle Times reports on what else to do while touring this month's Skagit Valley tulip festival.

"Commercial growers farm more than 1,000 acres of flowers in the valley, and when in full bloom, it's a territorial quilt of dazzling reds, yellows and pinks.

You can see most of them in a half-hour drive or a half-day of biking on the straight, flat roads that crisscross fertile fields. So what do you do before and after?"

Read the full story: A bouquet of ideas