By Cynthia Bledsoe, special to Charleston Currents | My husband and I recently took a Holland and Belgium river cruise, starting in Amsterdam. We cruised through canals north to Enkuizen, a formerly important Dutch East India Company trading port, and then south to Rotterdam, Dordrecht and Veere.
You might not believe the bountiful color found in gardens open at the Giverny, France, home where Impressionist Claude Monet painted many of his most famous paintings.
This tulip, flanked by tiny violet forget-me-nots, is just one of hundreds of flowering species at the gardens, about 50 kilometers northwest of Paris. Click on this link to see other photos taken April 21 in Monet’s gardens. Photos by Andy Brack.
This is the first tulip we’ve seen this year, a sure sign (with all of the pesky pollen) that spring is on the way. While rain seems to be the order for the week, it has some benefits — such as cleaning all of the pollen from the air…
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