a visit to my mom’s

my mom is 86 years old. no one knows what to buy her for holidays any more. so she gets a lot of flowers and plants delivered. recently she got a basket of spring bulbs. the bulbs had not sprouted yet and were still covered with moss, so we didn’t know what was going to come up–hyacinths? daffodils? amaryllis? paperwhites? crocuses? a combination of all of them? one week of joyful anticipation…and pink tulips it is. so today i photographed tulips, while i listened to the weather report forecast 16-22 inches of snow in the next two days.