tulip season

this is my favorite time of year to sit on the front porch and look at my front yard.  this is nothing fancy, but it really makes me happy to see what the tulips do every year:

tulips

and a few experiments on the camera, just for fun.

everything is growing!

i have a bit of a love/hate thing with my yard. i love to watch things grow. i love the wilderness of it, when it's a mess. i love that its the opposite of the boring suburb where i grew up. i love that its just there, doing whatever it wants to do, in an non-orderly fashion.

...BUT... part of me kind of also hates the mess of it and wants a perfectly manicured lawn with perfect-sized bushes, perfect-sized trees, and matching colors that all bloom at exactly the right time. (now that i type this out i think this might actually be the way i am about a lot of things.)

in any event: i planted bulbs for the first time this past fall, and NOW! Ta da! everything is growing!

these are the soon-to-be tulips in my front yard. the colors are a mystery. we'll see! (disregard the clumpy grass and the wood chips scattered near and far by the neighbor's roaming chickens...)