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I bought flowers at Trader Joe's a couple days ago, for the table and the little downstairs bathroom. It's something I just like to do -- it makes me feel good, and they're not very expensive at TJ so it's a little flourish that I can easily afford. I bought mostly tulips, and some white hyacinths.
Now, tulips are a fairly straight-laced flower -- upright, rigid and unyielding, unruffled, and closed in tight. Elegant. Add some yellow ones to a bunch of white hyacinths, though, and you have a little bit of a wild streak going on. The hyacinths toss their blooms all over the place without caring, and release their sweet, sweet scent unstintingly. They make a nice mix on the little bathroom counter where the sun hits them. The tulips are beginning to relax their stance, jiving with the hyacinths.
On the dining table are creamy white tulips mixed with yellow ruffle-edged tulips. The ruffled ones are clearly the rebels of the breed -- they've opened out wide, flinging their petals free and exposing their curvy interiors. They have the audacity to droop down to the tabletop. The proper white ones are just softening the tiniest bit, strugglilng to maintain their dignity, I suppose -- but starting to lose the battle.
How does TJ have tulips so late in the year? Bulb flowers are usually the most ephemeral of things, so here-today-and-gone-tomorrow. Yet here they are on the first of July, inspiring me to write.
Now, tulips are a fairly straight-laced flower -- upright, rigid and unyielding, unruffled, and closed in tight. Elegant. Add some yellow ones to a bunch of white hyacinths, though, and you have a little bit of a wild streak going on. The hyacinths toss their blooms all over the place without caring, and release their sweet, sweet scent unstintingly. They make a nice mix on the little bathroom counter where the sun hits them. The tulips are beginning to relax their stance, jiving with the hyacinths.
On the dining table are creamy white tulips mixed with yellow ruffle-edged tulips. The ruffled ones are clearly the rebels of the breed -- they've opened out wide, flinging their petals free and exposing their curvy interiors. They have the audacity to droop down to the tabletop. The proper white ones are just softening the tiniest bit, strugglilng to maintain their dignity, I suppose -- but starting to lose the battle.
How does TJ have tulips so late in the year? Bulb flowers are usually the most ephemeral of things, so here-today-and-gone-tomorrow. Yet here they are on the first of July, inspiring me to write.
