Tulips at the market: my favorite harbinger of spring
I think the Dutch had it right in the seventeeth century; why not base your economy on the beauty of the tulip? It’s a most worthy form of currency. And no offense to other spring bloomers, but that’s a feat neither a daffodil nor a hyacinth could pull off.
Yesterday, I was at the Puyallup (pronounced pew-al-up) Farmers Market (“off-island” as we like to call it) and the locally grown tulips stole the show.
While the sprouting broccoli, cauliflower, and mixed greens looked delicious, healthy eating has a hard sell when a bouquet of long-stemmed tulips can stop you dead in your tracks. Price them to sell at $10 a dozen, and your stomach will forgive you when raisin bran is on the menu for breakfast, lunch and dinner. But as I like to say, “What feeds the heart, feeds the soul.”
2 bulldogs and tu-lips: Boz & Gracie channel their inner Vermeer
One week later and they are just as dreamy (though it helps if you keep your house as cold as a meat locker).
6 responses so far ↓
1 Eileen // May 3, 2009 at 9:08 pm
Not only are you an incredible writer, flower arranger, photographer, gardener, handy man, cook, plumber, etc., I could go on but it’s public knowledge. Anyways, you also made me laugh out loud with this one.
Sure wish you were my neighbor….
2 miffy // May 3, 2009 at 11:37 pm
Too effin cute…of course you can make anything look cute! You are adorable my love and it eminates …
xoxoxo
3 noble pig // May 4, 2009 at 4:38 pm
I love the word harbinger.
4 M.A. // May 5, 2009 at 12:30 am
Sure, the flowers are lovely and what could be more elegant and graceful than a bulldog–that’s right, the answer’s TWO bulldogs–but forget them: THE WALLS LOOK FABULOUS!!
5 emilieschuler // May 6, 2009 at 8:37 pm
Hi, I found your site through 101cookbooks, and I really enjoy reading it! Great writing, adorable dogs, and topics I’m interested in~ The only thing is that I can seem to find a subscribe button! I know you have rss, but I like getting emails with updates best~ Any way you can add such a feature to your site??
Thanks!
~Balcony gardener and student in Boston
6 Tom // May 7, 2009 at 12:59 am
Thanks Emilie for the kind words. Yep let me look into adding such an option.
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