Fifty shades of  . . .  amazing!
Yesterday, Saturday April 13, we went to Thanksgiving Point  which is north west of Provo in a town called Lehi.  It was a chilly, cloudy day but the forecast was not looking any better so we went for it.  It was the second day of the Tulip festival.  A lot of the tulips were not yet blooming as they have had an unusually cold spring.
It is an absolutely beautiful facility.  They have guided garden tours, gardening demonstrations, a craft and garden market as well as a beautiful restaurant with a string quartet playing when we were there.  There are a quarter of a million tulips as well as thousands of spring flowers.
https://www.thanksgivingpoint.org/visit/thanksgivingpointgardens
The area is huge, 55 acres and has 15 theme gardens.  There is a rose garden and a butterfly garden which I would love to see in the summer.
As excited as Don wasn't to go, he even had to admit it was pretty impressive.

This is the view from the visitor centre to the vista mound garden which is about in the centre of the facility.

and vise versa.

I am so glad these tulips were blooming, it was a sea of red all around the top.

It was beautiful to walk around and see flowers everywhere.  Hyacinths and daffodils were tucked in every possible spot.  This waterfall was huge.

I loved this living carousel.

There were a lot of these interesting looking oak trees that had forgotten to drop their leaves.  There was also a small pond that was alive with koi.

One of these gardens had quite a number of religious statues which were very well done.

This was the Italian Garden, the water flowed from a beautiful statue through all these huge pots.

this one was called the secret garden .

I don't think I have ever seen either of these flowers before.  The top one looks like upside down tulips with 4 or 5 on each stalk and the pink ones were very small.

I did not realize there were so many varieties of daffodils.

These were some of my favorite tulip pictures.

Hard to even imagine the work and cost of setting up this facility.

More tulips  - after all it was the tulip festival.  It was a great way to get our walk in for the day, not everyday you can see this amazing color.

Most of the trees and bushes were labelled which was really nice, as I have never heard of many of these plants.  This tree was bare except for these huge white flowers.  Amazing!
Off in the distance we kept hearing what sounded like thunder.  Turns out it is an army training area and we were hearing them practise live fire training.

It looks like a huge facility as well.

And last but not least: