Grapehyacinths in the snow

as promised.

Zoals beloofd, Blauwe Druifjes in de sneeuw.

I love Grapehyacinths,

but I have to admit tulips are my favourite spring flowers.

Did you know about national tulip day in Holland?

That was today!

I read about it for the first time today.

You could pick your very own bouquet of tulips for free 

in Amsterdam today.

Just take a look here.

Ik hou wel van Blauwe Druifjes,

al geef ik toe dat tulpen mijn favoriete lente bloemen blijven.

Wellicht wisten jullie dat het vandaag

nationale tulpendag was in Nederland?

Ik las daar vandaag voor het eerst over,

In Amsterdam kon je vandaag helemaal zelf een gratis

boeketje tulpen plukken 

Kijk maar eens hier.

Lovely sunday everyone!

Fijne zondag iedereen!

Marian

a little red, a little yellow

Let's take a little break from the snow
and go back to the first week of january instead.
Not a snowy white winterland then yet.
What a difference when looking outside now.
I have to admit, although very cold, I do love this white world.


Maybe due to the grey and dark weather during the first days of 2013,
I enjoyed every tiny sprinkle of colour more than ever then.

There were the raspberries I couldn't resist while shopping.

Don't they look great on and around the chocolate banana

cupcakes I made?

And the yellow dots?

Those are from the Forsythia branches I cut on the last day of 2012.
Remember me telling you about that? You can read it here.

No Forsythia abloom in the garden yet, but,

in the house, in a colourful red and white dotted can,

they brought the first spring colour.

 

Enjoy!

I've been trying to take pictures of the many birds in the garden,
without succes though.
So instead, I decided to take the flowerpot with grapehyacinths
which are now blooming in the house,
outside into the snow and photograph those.
Aren't flowers the easiest things to photograph?
They don't fly, they always smile and have the prettiest colours.
Will show you those photos soon!
O yes, took that pot with blooms in again afterwards of course!


Bye,
Marian