Tulips and Daffodils

Last fall I bought a couple of bags of mixed colors of tulips and daffodils. The phot that was on the website and the photo on the bag of tulips showed some that were bright red, yellow and pink. So I was expecting those colors, even though it said it would be mixed colors. I knew this site also offered unusual colors but figured these would be the standard red, pink, yellow colors. The first ones came up and it seemed to take for ever for the color to show. I was disappointed that the tulips seemed to all be white or worse, pale yellow. Not the colors I would have picked. In fact I almost went to the web site and complained but it did say mixed colors and they did grow and bloom.Boy, was I surprised when those pale yellow tulips started getting pink stripes. Some like the flower in the first photo was really beautiful. Some took on more of the pink color changing completely. I got the photos on here backwards. The photos of yellow tulips should be first and the pink ones next. These photos are of the same group of tulip blossoms. I was amazed. I have a friend who said she had some green tulips that then turned red. How unique. I would be interested to know the process for breeding tulips that change color. Now those last photos are 

 are  of a different tulip I got in the same bunch that came out a lovely shade of butterscotch.

 

Some birds and Things

The cardinals have been where ever cardinals go in the winter. Last year there was 3 pair that hung around here. So far I have only seen 1 pair this year. I put out some sunflower seeds for them and got some decent photos of the both the male and female. It is easy to tell the difference in the cardinals but my book says the male and female red-headed woodpecker look the same so I haven't figured out if I have one woodpecker coming in or more than one. Anyway the woodpecker seems to be fond of something he or she is digging out of the ground in my front yard.

 Red-headed woodpecker

The squirrel has come in for a share of the sunflower seeds.

The daffodils are looking good at the abandoned house down the road from us.

It was very late and I had to zoom all the way to see this pair of does out back of our place.

Daffodils

We are at the end of the road, sort of. There is an old house a half mile past us - or not so old but it has been abandoned and vandalized. Nothing left but the outer walls. But when someone had lived there they had planted daffodils and they have multiplied very well. Here are a few photos I have taken of those 'wild' daffodils that are blooming so pretty right now as they welcome in the spring.

This is the road that goes by our place and then by the abandoned house to end up at the Carrollton Waste Water Plant which is fenced and locked so no one can get in.

This photo shows the abandoned house in the back.