Tulips in South Dakota

May 8, 2009

We asked our readers to submit their favorite South Dakota tulip photos. Here's what we got!

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Here's one from our publisher, Bernie Hunhoff.
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"No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn." - Hal Borland.
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According to buzzle.com, the tulip is the third most popular flower in the world after rose and chrysanthemum. They originated in central and western Asia. Photo by Carol Klein
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"Oh Lord, I never lived where churches grow. I like creation better as it stood that day you finished it so long ago." -Badger Clark. Photo by Carol Klein
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Charlotte Mickelson shot this photo of some tulips she made herself on a stained glass panel.
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"Dakota comes! What varied wealth of mount and plains she brings." - H.N. Maquire, pioneer editor. Photo by Craig Wollman
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"Nourish it, then, that it may leaf and bloom and fill with singing birds." - Black Elk. Photo by Craig Wollman
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"There was beauty in this plain, delicate beauty and a weird charm." -Hamlin Garland. Photo by Bernie Hunhoff
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"The Dakota people believe the pasque's appearance awakened other plants from winter sleep and reminded them to emerge from the heart of the Earth." - Jerry Wilson. Photo by Anne Galante
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"So vast is the extent the eye takes in ... a far-spreading verdue, relieved by a profusion of variously colored flowers." - Joseph Nicollet. Photo by Rebecca Terk
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"Mountain plain or prairie fields, summer heat or snows, South Dakota's people are the grandest crop she grows." -Badger Clark. Photo by Terry VanDeWalle
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"Mother, you stand guard against the prairie flowers ... your arm held back (as a hen protecting her chicks) protecting these young children ..." - Darla Bielfeldt. Photo by Terry VanDeWalle