No, they're not from our yard: the tulips are just beginning to bloom. Lee bought them as a present for me--a sort of late Valentine's Day gift as he was down with a cold in mid-February.Tulips show up in strange places. Nancy Marelli, co-publisher of Véhicule Press, planted many in their small front yard last fall, but very few have come up. Their neighbor, however, was raving about the miracle that has occured chez eux: small thicket of tulip leaves pushing their way toward the sunshine even though they had planted none.
It seems that squirrels--those rascally beasts--had dug up most of Nancy's tulip bulbs and moved them three meters away to plant them there.
A note about the cool weather: this is the third year when we've had short spell of warm weather followed by some cool. This means that the spring flowers have begun to bloom early, and then have had a chance to strut their stuff before it gets hot. Most years in the past, the period of bloom has been short as we jumped from winter to summer in a week. I prefer it this way.
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