TULIPS FOR SPRING AND SUMMER

Family members come by to visit and to bring me flowers. Tulips! For those who don't live in the Northeast, particularly in New England, let me explain to you what Spring flowers mean to us: Hope.

We HOPE we don't accidentally kill the flowers.

We HOPE the sudden temperature changes don't cause the blooms to freeze into petal-ice-cubes.

We HOPE the weather really has turned for the warmer.

We HOPE that putting our snow shovels away and putting out tulips does not bring on a late-spring blizzard.

We HOPE our allergies don't kick into high gear as soon as the tulips open.

We HOPE the tulips bring summer before we all freeze.

Happy Spring, and happy almost-summer!