Monday, April 20, 2009

Tulips

Out and about the last few days and with this great 70 something weather, can't help but notice Spring in Nebraska. Beautiful flowering trees...stores with plants once again...gorgeous flower beds everywhere...a lack of coats...pretty girls in shorts...and tulips. Beautiful, exotic...tulips.

They are exotic to me because I grew up in Florida, and one simply can't grow tulips in Florida. Something to do with frost, or freezing, or lazyass gardeners...I don't know. I'm sure someone will enlighten me as to the reason. But that's not what this post is about. It's about my love of the tulip.

One of the better reasons to live in this climate is the annual tulip outburst...and the ensuing parade of color. I love it. However, when the annual bulbs begin to present their new selves, there is something else that comes to my pickled brain. Something from my young man days. Something I want to share with you. So I went ahunting on YouTube...and I found it...this thing that is embedded in my grayest matter...and screams at me when I see tulips. I truly hate that it takes over and insinuates itself in my life at this time of year. But, we are the sum total of our past...and can't escape it.

For your enjoyment...and especially for those of you who are too young to remember, the epitome of tulipness:

8 comments:

Doug said...

Thanks, jj. I have not heard that in a long time. I should be good for another 20 years now :-)

mr-stu said...

I just love Spring with the burst of colour that appears everywhere but especially the greens of the grass after winter.

jadedj said...

Doug---I like to spread my miseries.

mr-stu---I agree.

intelliwench said...

I remember thinking Tiny Tim was a joke, and then being very surprised that he wasn't.

I like tulips, too. Apparently, so do deer. If I want mine to bloom next year, I'll have to spread this concoction of dehydrated badger piss and fox sweat all around my flower beds.

jadedj said...

intell---Knowing that you live in a red state such as mine, you could invite some of your gun-toting fellow citizens over during blooming season, and have both tulips AND venison.

Steve said...

Maybe Floridians can't grow them because they look too nice/classy, which, in a state filled with pink flamingos, cabbage roses, and other things that make Florida, Florida, tulips simply refuse to have anything to do with the place.

jadedj said...

Steve---that's in the yards of retired New Yorkers. Truly.

PENolan said...

I hope you don't think it presumptuous of me, but I passed on a little award to you.
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