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Since I spent last spring learning my Nikon’s ins and outs, I’ve been especially rabid about finding tulips to shoot this year now that we’re geared up and I have half an idea of what I’m doing — and I’m eagerly waiting for the peonies to bloom, too.
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These tulips are blooming at Ward Meade Park in here in Topeka.
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