There's a place in Rochester where you can take a winter field trip indoors that can really help you "spring ahead." You have to see it and smell it to believe it. 

There are 14,000 flower bulbs in bloom at the George Eastman Museum for the annual Dutch Connection flower display. Dan Bellavia, Eastman Museum Landscape Manager, and a team of volunteers plant bulbs in more than 2,000 pots to display throughout the mansion.

"Yes, it starts in June and we work pretty much year-round. Once we get the bulbs in we start potting them and when it starts to get cold they go into the greenhouses and then we display the show for you," said Bellavia. "In 1895 George Eastman took a bike trip to the Netherlands and that is when he saw the fields of all the tulips that were there and he wrote a letter back to his mother talking about it. At that point, there were not a lot of tulips in this side of the world so he decided to bring them back and that was 10 years before he even moved into this house. From then on he started ordering 30,000 to 40,000 a year to put out in the yards to have flowers in the house."

The flowers are so fragrant you can smell them the second you walk in the mansion.

“I love listening to people when they come in and the first thing you hear is 'oh my gosh I can smell them,' and then they start walking in and their faces — it tells them that spring is not far away," Bellavia said. "Spring is coming and it is not hopeless here in Rochester. I have a team of volunteers that is so dedicated to doing this and this is one of the fun things we do here."

The Dutch Connection is at the George Eastman Museum until Sunday, March 1. Kids can also get their hands dirty in the bulb potting workshop.