Tulipomania

During our weekend walks, Cookie and I couldn't help but mourn the end of tulip season. Their colorful lollipop tops are gone, save for a few beat-up looking stragglers that are fighting a losing battle against the brutal Oklahoma winds...

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Some spectacular photos of Dutch tulip fields have circulated through the inboxes at my office, and I just have to share these from the Daily Mail:

Aren't the fields magnificent? The tulip fields look like modern rugs, with bold color blocks in warm hues, like Paul Smith's Stripe rug from The Rug Company:

 A Semper Augustus tulip, the most prized tulip for its unique candy-cane like stripes.

There you have it: more than you've ever wanted to know about tulips!

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Spring at last!

I emerged from this painfully frigid winter a grumpy, lumpy woman, pale and starved for sunshine...

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Cookie would totally try to catch (and destroy) this bird. "Try" being the key word.

This tree looks like Maleficent's dragon on Sleeping Beauty... Do you see her?

Mmmm, sunsets.

It's not every day that you see blossoms sprouting out of a tree limb.

More on tulips soon.

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