Today and tomorrow

Today there are yellow and orange ranunculus flowers. We see clouds of honeybees in the redbuds. This morning the first lilac wonder tulip opened. This is the first species tulip of the season. Allium type one is probably at its peak. Morning glories and moonflowers have germinated. We have a sweetpea flower. A different type of pink Dutch hyacinth is blooming now. We have one Thalia open and another on the same stalk not yet open. It's worth it to get right down there to take in the scent. A new color of wintered-over nasturtium is blooming: strong yellow with large splotches of red-brown. There are bits of green showing on the roses of sharon, all but the old-fashioned homely Kleenex-chrysanthemum super-double deep-pink one. It may have reached the end of its vitality. The first of the redbud flowers are beginning to drop; if the ornamental pear flowers open tomorrow, as they promise to, there will be pink and white side by side for at least one day.