Dahlia Farm

It occurred to me that I still had not made it to the Dahlia farms, ever. I've wanted to go the last couple years, so this year I decided to finally make it happen one morning right after we dropped Charlie off at school. (He didn't want to go anyway! Ha!) We arrived shortly after opening so there weren't many people there.

He was really excited about these snowball ones. 

 And he wanted me to take his photo at every one of these things. Edwin was still attached to my back, I didn't want to bring him out until a little bit more into our outing.

My favorites were the deep red dahlias.

"Miles, that blossom is as big as your head..." then this happened

We did have a lot of fun. Each of the types of flowers had a different fun name so Miles liked hearing all of those...such as Tutti Frutti, blah blah blah, Vixen, and a whole bunch of others I can't think of right now!

And then we released the tiny beast.  He was excited to roam free, pull out signs, climb on irrigation pipes and give me a whole lot of "cheeeeeeee" for photos. (Cheese for those that don't speak 1-year-old)

 

Oh, and he had to keep on sniffing the flowers. 

 

 And Miles was grumpy within an hour so we didn't stay that long and made our way back to the car....and of course, my children were more thrilled with the parking lot flags than the flowers.