Breathe deep, persistent tulip.
My dear wife Karen remembers digging up the tulip bulbs at this particular corner of a front garden last fall.
They didn’t get along well with the juniper-come-lately as it grew. And they’d been there coming up on 10 years. Karen says they’ve been looking more and more scraggly each year.
A couple little buggers escaped her trowel.
We noticed them as I welcomed Karen home from work last night.
The tulips look even stronger this morning, this first green shoot in our Syracuse city home’s various gardens.
Welcome, spring, to our neighborhood of Eastwood. It is now official in our yard.
Here they are close-up. Who cares that it’s 33 now, with a high of 41 today, and a wintry mix forecast for tonight. Let’s dance!
Have a good spring, little ladies.
Mark Bialczak 
Yes spring is coming but the chill is still in the air. We’re suppose to peak at 64 degrees during this coming week. We’ll see. I guess if those buds have been growing there for ten years they may be hard to get rid of. They are a pretty shade of green.
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Let’s get going, spring. Thanks, Kim.
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I don’t know what those bulbs are made of but I’m willing to guess it’s supernatural! How did they survive that brutal cold? Amazing, the will to live!
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They burrowed up toward the sun, those lovely green shoots, Sandra. Yay!
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I just noticed yesterday the trees have bloomed here. Have no idea when that finally happened!
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Yay for spring in Richmond, Sheena!
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Love seeing those tulips Mark. Can’t wait to see the blooms. They are always such a welcome sight in the spring. We usually get crocus first, but so far I haven’t seen anything resembling a flower yet. Still hoping.
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Flowers to come in a while, Angie. Pouring rain here right now tonight. I guess that’s good!
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Better rain than the white stuff Mark. I want to get down to look at the river. I’ve heard it’s starting to overflow and is full of tree trunks and a lot of other nasty junk that someone needs to clean out of there. In the ’70’s here today. Nice.
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Don’t get to close to the river, Angie, not when it’s swollen with nasty ’70’s junk.
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hey, you can’t keep a rogue bulb down, man!
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Ha! I can now picture the tulip flower wearing an old newsboys hat and spitting out of the side of its mouth, Beth!
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exactly!
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Spring has arrived in Syracuse! I’m excited and I live thousands of miles away. I’m really looking forward to seeing your garden in spring and then summer.
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You know I will be posting steadily, Rachel. It’s right there to take a picture of!
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Looking forward to the pictures.
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I am very excited for you and Karen! Spring is springing! 😀
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On peut le voir comme ça. Radieuse journée Mark K … Merci … C
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Radiant day indeed, K. Merci.
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À tout à l’heure! Très bien Mark …C
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I always feel that the green popping out, is the image of Hope everlasting! So great to be in the shadows of the evergreen bushes, too! I love the crocuses and daffodils that are in my girlfriend and her husband’s gardens! Purple and yellow blooms were trying valiantly to find the sun yesterday! Smiles, Robin
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I am so looking forward to flowers this spring, Robin.
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I thought tulips only came up once and then never again. I so want to have some planted now.
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These bulbs have been perennial, Rebecca. I love them, even the ones my wife call scraggly.
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They are my favorite flowers.
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I will post a picture of them when they come up and blossom. Now you have to follow my blog so you can see. You should plant tulips, Rebecca, for sure.
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Naaa I should get someone to plant them for me ;). We should follow one anothers… unless you offend easily. I’m pg13
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I’ve even handled ‘R’ without breaking stride. You are followed. And, yes, you should find a planter for you!
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🙂 Yay
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I shall dance in the wintry mix too! We have been teased enough. I am on my way to spring!
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