Tulip Festival greets spring with its luminous blooms
Albany High School seniors Meghan Geraghty, left, Marah Sami, Ella Halgren, Sofia Garcia Galagarza, Kennedy Foley, Taryn Mccoy and Cassidy Foley participate in the traditional Dutch ceremony of scrubbing State Street clean, which serves as the official kickoff Friday to Tulip Festival weekend in Albany. At right, Alyssa Miller, 4, of East Greenbush stops to smell Royal Pride Darwin Hybrid tulips in Washington Park ahead of the celebration.