Our friend Lynn B. has connections to the White House, and treated Tom and I and our friend Jeff to a special White House garden tour on Sunday! The White House garden tour happens twice a year, spring and fall. It requires tickets or special invitations (such as we were privilidged to, thanks to Lynn B). 
Although many of the flowers weren't blooming yet, because of our colder-than-normal springtime, the tulips were!
(PHOTO: Lynn B., Tom and Rob up close!)
(PHOTO: This is an "Eastern Redbud tree that was grafted with a white tree of the same variety. Yes, it has red/pink and white blossoms from the same tree). 
(PHOTO: Here's another picture of some flowers that we thought were really beautiful). Because most of the other flowers (like Azaleas and roses) weren't blooming, the tour wound up being more like a walking tour of trees planted by various presidents. It was interesting. There were two by the elder Bushes, two by the Clintons (dogwoods and a Linden Tree), one by Eisenhower, Hoover, Jackson and John Quincy Adams.
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