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Avis Hearon of Lewiston picks tulips Wednesday morning at Chipman’s Upick Tulips at 150 Carpenter Road in Poland. Hearon was the first customer of the season in one of two massive tulip fields that are open Wednesday-Sunday, depending on the weather. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal
Avis Hearon of Lewiston picks tulips Wednesday morning at Chipman’s Upick Tulips at 150 Carpenter Road in Poland. Hearon was the first customer of the season in one of two massive tulip fields that are open Wednesday-Sunday, depending on the weather. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal
Avis Hearon of Lewiston picks tulips Wednesday morning at Chipman’s Upick Tulips at 150 Carpenter Road in Poland. Hearon was the first customer of the season in one of two massive tulip fields that are open Wednesday-Sunday, depending on the weather. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal
Tulips are covered in dew and rain Wednesday morning at Chipman’s Upick Tulips at 150 Carpenter Road in Poland. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal
Avis Hearon of Lewiston picks tulips Wednesday morning at Chipman’s Upick Tulips at 150 Carpenter Road in Poland. Hearon was the first customer of the season in one of two massive tulip fields that are open Wednesday-Sunday, depending on the weather. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal
While waiting for customers to arrive Wednesday morning, Madison Pelletier, who was manning the cash register, decided to pick some tulips for herself at Chipman’s Upick Tulips at 150 Carpenter Road in Poland. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal

A lifelong resident of Lewiston, Russ stumbled into photography as a college student working toward a career in psychology. His great-grandfather Louis B. Costello was the publisher of the Lewiston Daily...