Thursday, February 12, 2009

Courageous little guys

Yesterday we had a burly storm pass through. I thought the house was going to blow over and there was water running inside a just painted wall. Yes! Inside the house. The wind ripped off some stripping over a window and rain came rushing in. There were even pictures taken of the streaming rivulets so Dave would know I wasn't exaggerating. The dog licked up all the water as it hit the floor. I guess he came in good for something.

That was yesterday. Today, it's gorgeous out. The crocuses must have decided it was safe to venture out after all the death and destruction. It's barely February and we have flowers! I figure they are the most courageous little guys or they're kamikaze's. Either way, it is great to see them this morning.
Tennessee has had the craziest weather lately. One day it's in the 70's the next it's -7 followed with ice storms. Maybe all the bulbs we have are just confused.

Only the yellows have opened. They did this last year too. I planted three colors and they all came up by color. First the yellows then the whites followed by the purples. I don't really mind their color selectiveness. It would be nice to see all the colors at the same time though. Does this happen to any of you? Or does anyone know why they do this?

6 comments:

Nemesis said...

This happened to me too. I bought a Costco bag of crocus bulbs and I swear only half of them came up and at all different times. I think purples were first. Meg can keep track of them this year when they come up--about mid-MAY.

Laci J said...

Oooooo, pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty! Hey, I've been calling and calling and calling you... hehe this comment has a lot of duplicates duplicates. So call me! Call ME!! CALL ME!!!

deerhollow said...

this photo made my day and gives me hope!!!!!
thanks for sharing!

Anonymous said...

pretty colors....

lil Rebel Child♥ said...

dangit sorry that one was me....im finally on! loves to ya! ur loverly little sis lanisha

lil Rebel Child♥ said...

hey there my lovely big sister. how u doin? Well im just checkin up on ya. Miss ya LOADS! Cant wait to hang with u in Florida.... hope ur feeling well today. loves<3 from me...