Last fall I gave myself a present of 100 tulips
Kaufmania tulips, sometimes called waterlily tulips. They are short, early, and longer lived then some of the other varieties.
Other things are blooming today too...
Liverwort, or anemone hepatica
(which for some reason makes me think of the act of distilling)
and
Lungwort, or pulmonaria.
(breath deep)
For better or worse, I tend to read many books at the same time. I started Tom Robbins book Skinny Legs and All in January and was waylaid by a few others so I'm just getting back to it. I knew I wanted to though because I was completely hooked by a paragraph about mockingbirds and this passage:
"Jonquil bulbs fired round after round of butter-tipped stalks, all sorts of buds were swelling and popping, birds (not just mockingbirds) strung ropes of birdsong from treetop to fence post, bees and other insects were waking to the unfamiliar alarm of their own faint buzz; all around, the warming natural world was in the process of rebirth and renewal..."