Tulips galore

Today I saw the tulips in my front yard had bloomed. They were red, yellow, and purple. The purple were not totally bloomed. They were about a foot tall from the leaves to the tip of the flower. They were

closed and had a

teardrop shape. The leaves were about 7 or 7 and a half inches long and bright green.

Some of the tulips were streaked with red and orangy yellow and others were bright scarlet. The purple ones were a deep purple (the camera changed it a bit.) I also saw that some more apricot colored tulips had bloomed. Earlier they were yellow, but the new ones are more orange. Aren't they lovely :)

I also noticed that our white azalea bush is growing little flowers.

It's been raining a lot recently. Oh, well, you know what they say about April rain...

This was all observed about 6:30 pm on April 28 in my front and back yards.

Spring has definitely sprung :)

April 4, 2010 5:00 p.m My yard (Front and back)

Today I found a LOT of signs of spring. There were fully unfurled leaves on ALL the trees. The leaf I drew was about 4 square inches large.

It was a bright, light green color, with light veins on it. It had a few light red parts which were

turning green.

That's because maple leaves start red and turn green. It had one edge that was a bit reddish. It also had a few bite marks from the first inchworms.

God, I hate those worms. They almost killed the trees one year. Anyways, that leaf was similar to the thousands of other leaves on the trees in my

yard.

That leaf just sits there

Doing not one thing at all

Except being green.

I also found three tulips in my back garden! One was red, one was yellow, and one was a beautiful orange color. They were about 15 inches tall, and the red and yellow ones are not quite open yet. The orange one was streaked with red, yellow, and orange. It was mostly opened.

In addition, I also saw that the myrtle plants on the left and right edges of my yard had their pretty blue flowers bloomed. The flowers were about 4 square cm large.

They were a purplish-blue color. They had slightly rectangular petals and a hole with the pollen, etc.

I also found some white and violet violets in my yard.

In addition, I found some strange flower that was purplish-blue and had tiny round flowers coming out of the stem in a cone shape.

I found some unopened tulips in my front yard. At least, I think they were tulips.

Yay, tulips.

Finally, I saw that my whole yard was much greener!

Wowie...

There are a LOT of signs of spring around my house now. Today I observed the forsythia bush's flowers, some star-shaped blue and white flowers, pink hyacinths, pussy willows, and even an early daffodil!

The forsythia was in my front yard on the top left corner. It had many bright yellow flowers with four petals on its branches, but no leaves. The flowers were about 1 cm wide and 2 cm tall.

The star-shaped flowers are mystery flowers. There were light indigo, blue-and-white, and a few lavender clusters of flowers in my back yard. The flowers were about 1 square cm large and about 7 cm tall.

The hyacinths were a very pale pink, with 6 petals. The part closest to the stem was thin, then curved into 6 petals. They had a strong, sweet smell that was really good. They were about 2 cm tall and 1 cm wide. They were in my back garden.

The first fuzzes on the pussy willow have gone past the fuzzy part and more buds seem to be becoming fuzzy. The first ones are now about 3 cm tall and 1 cm wide, with little yellow things coming out of them, like a dandelion puff, but with flowers on the end. Are they flowers? do you know?

The daffodil is alone in the myrtle plants on the left side of my house. It is about 20 to 25 cm tall. The flower might be about 7 cm wide. The outer petals were pale yellow and there was a tube-shaped inner petal that was golden-yellow. I had to draw it from kind of far away because I couldn't get to it without squishing plants and invoking the wrath of my dad. He's into gardening and I don't think he'd like it if I prevented any more flowers from coming up.

I also saw a little chickadee land on the bird feeder really close to me. It looked right at me and it didn't fly away! It was really cute. It did its "chicka-dee-dee-dee" call and flew away. I couldn't draw it, though, because I didn't get a real good look at it.

Those are some of the many signs of spring I saw today around 6:30 pm at my house. By the way, happy Easter Mr. Williams!