My Nine Tulips

Spring is beginning to show itself so beautifully. I love it. I also love my flowerbeds in the spring. It is my favorite time of the year for them. I do hardly anything to them and they are filled with spring blooms and colours.  Years ago I planted a whole bunch of bulbs - all kinds I think.  Most of them never amounted to much, but a few tulips have survived the years.  Every year I get a few tulips popping up.  About nine.  They usually coordinate their blooming and opening with my purple phlox and it looks soooo nice.  (at least I think so).  I was admiring how they were finally coming along on Sunday.  The first few tulips had opened with a few more promising to follow in the next few days.  Ahh. The anticipation.

Then . . . Monday morning, in walked Kylie with a bouquet of flowers for her mother.  It was one of those moments when it is best not to respond too quickly. What I wanted to say, was not the thing I should say!   I was rather slightly annoyed, and yet . . . she was giving me a gift and she was proud of it.  So I thanked her and told her how sweet it was.. And then we had a little chat.

  

 Now it is back to getting plenty of dandelion bouquets . . . and looking at my tulip leaves in the flower beds.

                              And lest I forget,  I now have two little bowls inside that have my blooms in them. They are still being enjoyed - just not the way I had envisioned.