None of the tulips coming up in my garden are mine. I mean, I took over the plot mid-summer last year, and, while I had the best of intentions as for planting bulbs, the garden itself was a jungle when I took it over, and a mudpit when I got finioshed with it last fall, and I still hadn't quite worked out the lay-out to my satisfaction. So it would have been a headache to deal with bulbs I'd planted in random spots coming up everywhere in the spring, when I wanted to get the hardscaping sorted.

So the ones popping up now are all little surprises. Colorwise, they're not my favorites—I prefer something a little more delicate, but I'll take 'em anyway. Here's a little garden porn for a cloudy Monday...