Bishop Hans van den Hende of Rotterdam blessed the flowers destined for St. Peter’s Square at Keukenhof (a botanical garden) ...

"We wanted to see what it looked like in real life," she added ... thousands of dedicated Dutch still make the trek to the see the flowers, like 78-year-old pensioner Henrick Lenk.

Alysse Budd, of Toledo, studies specimens on exhibit as part of ‘Rachel Ruysch: Nature Into Art’ at the Toledo Museum of Art.