Photo Challenge # 51

Day # 51


My tulips are blooming! Well, the tulips in my front flower beds are blooming! They are the first ones to open up and let me know that it is spring is really here!! 
Tulips are pretty tough little flowers. They manage to survive the spring snowfall we often get here.
While I was photographing my tulips, I remembered a story from a few years ago!

There once was a girl, who had a curl right in the middle of her forehead…ooops! Wrong story… 
There was a little girl, she was about 3 years old, with brown hair. She was a cute little girl. She was always full of fun and mischief. She, like her siblings, also loved being outside. Not the typical ribbon and curl girl. Digging in the dirt, hanging on the monkey bars kind of girl. 
She also had 2 sisters, and 2 brothers.
 The house was a busy, noisy house.  There was always someone going in or out, someone crying, laughing or in trouble.
It was during this time of year, the tulips were just opening up. 
The little girls mother was busy with the other children, household chores, yard work, cooking, cleaning, and more.  On this day the mother was making lunch, when the little girl came into the house. 
To the mothers horror, and the little girls delight. The little girl had picked all the tulip blossoms,(with no stems). Her little hands were full of tulips!
 Long story short, the mother tried to float tulips so they could enjoy them indoors (have you ever tried to float tulips they are not like roses!)

Twenty or so years later, these flowers still come up, red and yellow! I lovingly remember this  little girl…

Day # 51 "Tulips"

I have also was told a story about this little girls grandmother, who when she was a little girl had done the same thing!

Now, is it a family trait…or is it just little girls love to pick flowers for their mothers?

May flowers give you treasured memories…

See you tomorrow with Day # 52!

Jewels