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May the 4’s be with you
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Thanks for opening the overnighter, Andi. See you in the morn.
I left my sonnet at work, but while I was eating dinner just now this image popped into my head. Like many good ideas, I have no idea where it came from, but I kinda like it.
Lovely, Omir.
Oooo, thank you. I’m glad you like it.
How are you doing today, m’dear?
Sleepy, sleepy.
In which my haiku has nothing to do with nature:
bathed in liquid gold
your luminous face haunts me
in my lonely hours
Oh, that’s a nice one too. It raises lots of questions that are never going to be answered outside the reader’s mind.
We have decreed tonight Going To Bed Early night. I don’t think we’ll make it. For one thing, my granddaughter is reading to me.
but Olivia had asked me earlier to get some pics of the imminent tulip parade, so here’s one I got after work tonight.
I’ve gotta let the flowers do the poetry, since work sucked all my poetic leanings out of me today.
How’s everyone doing tonight? Small crowd so far?
I’m on my last leg. I like your big bunches of tulips. Don’t you hate when people plant a sad little row of them, like lonely soldiers in front of their houses?
We used to resist the mass planting thing, but they look so sparse otherwise, so now we got for the big splash effect. Unfortunately, I didn’t get any decent shots of the new masses just beyond the daffodils toward the back of this view… there are about 80-90 more new ones back there. These were just quickie shots I took before KO tonight… when they’re open later this week, I will take more time and concentrate on getting some really spectacular shots. Besides, it was overcast all day here and the light wasn’t so hot tonight.
You must have a lot of legs… LOL. Sleep well if you have to head out. BTW, liked your rhododendron shot earlier today… I was ducking in and out so I didn’t get nabbed at work. Why do you think you will kill them?
That picture is a poem all by itself.
Some April you should come out this direction. Every year they have a Tulip Festival up in the next county but one north of Seattle (Skagit County) where the commercial tulip bulb operations open their operations for anyone who wants to to come up and look at the acres and acres of tulips. I have pictures from the last time we went a few years ago of tulips all the way from the camera’s viewpoint to the horizon, with Mount Baker looming over everything in the background.
must be an awesome sight! I wish I could get to that part of the country more often, as I’ve only been there once and only briefly for work. There’s also a huge tulip festival in Pella, IA either later this month or early May that is quite the event as well. Pella is a very quaint, totally anal-retentive Dutch town about 40 miles east of here. People say the streets are so clean that you could eat off them… which goes to prove the saying around here about the Dutch attitude… “If you ain’t Dutch, you ain’t much.” And my Dutch friend Erna, who used to live there says it’s all too true. She loathed the people there, but the flowers are gorgeous!
Here’s a photo and link to the Skagit festival:
We were just reminiscing about it today. I lived on Whidbey for over two years and never made it. Then, a couple of years ago, a friend came to visit and we drove up. Somehow I’d gotten the dates wrong and we treated our visitor to the lovely sight of acres of mud and a few dismal piles of bulbs.
from a different angle… unfortunately those bags of dirt are blocking the view of the new tulip beds, but you can at least see where the 150+ daffodils are. So many are already blooming and more are still coming up!
In the foreground that tall thing is a new acquisition… a Crown Imperial Red Fritillaria that is way ahead of its game… supposed to bloom in mid-May and it already has buds!
I know I’m up too late when even the left coasters have given up the ghost and gone to bed… so in honor of Olivia, I’ll post one last tulip on its way…
Though the light wasn’t right, and it’s not open yet, this is a purple Darwin tulip, one in the new mass plantings we did last fall. They should be opening in a few days and I’ll work on getting much better shots at that point.
Good night to all, and good luck to FM and his daily drama … see you all soon.
Thank you!!!