Orange parrot tulip petals

This week's bouquet is mainly gradients of yellow, red and lots of orange, like this huge parrot tulip. As Matthieu van der Poel won the men's World Championship Cyclo-Cross in our village today, it seemed appropriate for today's Blip. Can you imagine over 40.000 people visiting our tiny village today (knowing there's about 4500 inhabitants)? We stayed in to watch the race on tv, a much better and warmer view than being a spectator in that immense crowd. I snapped a shot from the tv to show the sheer size of the crowd among the start/finish road in the extra.

Thanks so much for all the Abstract Thursday entries last Thursday, you all did very well. This coming Thursday the optional theme is 'close up'. Get so close to your subject that it will become unrecognisable/abstract.
The tag will be AT398. Here are 5 special entries from last Thursday:
59                       shapely frame
Bella888            it's all in the crop
libeccio              shadowy shapes
Lesmark            colours and lines in a leaf
rustycrap           spiky tyre

Thanks very much for the kind comments and stars for the rusty and lichened garden bench.