Tulip Celebration

Sue bought herself a half-dozen yellow tulips last week. Yellow is very Easter-ish after all, and, come spring, we all tend to have thoughts of tulips dancing though our brains anyway. Besides, her photo prompts for the week revolves around yellow.

On Sunday, I saw one in the backlight on our dining room table, and I managed to get a photo.

The next day, we did some shooting downstairs under artificial light. I added some sunrays artificially in post.

But then the very good thing happened. 

On the previous day, I had reduced the snow pile from just over the tulip part of the flowerbed. I shovelled off a foot or two of snow while being careful not to get down to ground level and hurt the poor things that I surmised might lay under there. Next day, when I went out to remove a little more snow, I saw that the flowerbed was now bare where I had already shovelled, and yes, ladies and gents, the tulip plants were poking out.

This made me inordinately happy, and I grabbed Sue's phone and took a few snaps.

The receding glacier has exposed these shoots at the ice edge.

There are several clumps, but this is the largest, a little farther away from the edge of the glacier, which is in the background.

This is what passes for excitement here in the Great White North.

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Meanwhile, here is the final post about the snow level that I have been prattling on and on about. I was going to wait another day, but then I looked out back and saw this, I realized that it will all be gone today back there, for it will be sunny and very warm.

Just a smidge in the very shadiest corner. The pile was even smaller later and will soon begone today.

Meanwhile, more snow remains out front: enough to maybe last through this warm day, but the flower garden around the tree is now completely uncovered with a little help from yours truly.

And that is pretty much the end of a very snowy winter. Today will be grand, and I will likely don shorts and tees for the first time in '23. It won't last of course. There will be much less-than-ideal weather over the next month or more, and the shorts and tees will be returned to the bureau for many days.