tulips

"A tulip!" shrieks K2.

We left it in the ground for a day but couldn't really see it or the orange one in the corner from inside the house.

There are others growing, but these are the first.

Beautiful to me. Spring is really here.

CTM seemed to me more like an artist than a hungry boy preparing his breakfast. The colours in this bowl struck me with such force that I just had to take some photos. Poor guy just wanted to eat! It seemed to me that he had arranged the fruit since it almost had the shape of a wagon wheel or flower, but no he had not. He did admit that sometimes he does.
Isn't that something that so many of us adults forget? Joy in the moment, delight with simple things: these bring abundance to our lives.

BTG wanted to share these

BTG gave a lovely explanation to me of this picture:

I learned that goldfish flowers when they are ripe, they are bright orangey-red and then when they get older, their bulb kind of shrinks and the seed inside them isn’t in the middle of the flower anymore. And then when they shrivel up and die they fall off the plant.

Cleaver:
With this, I discovered that it grows in bunches of two or three together. And I also discovered that it was very hard to draw.

Last summer, BTG sat on a log in the backyard and drew this sketch of the neighbouring farm. She concentrated especially on getting the shadows right.

K2's favourite recent pictures

a primula flower from our windowsill, dried and glued into his book

K2 wants you to be sure you can read the caption he wrote under the picture:

a 9 month old baby!

Jack Frost's work is gorgeous on our old, drafty windows.

Birds by CTM:

Although this looks only somewhat like the real thing, we did see two Blue Jays at our feeder almost every day this week. We're quite excited and hope they stick around for the winter.

I copied this out of my bird book, not from the real thing.