Preparing for...Winter?

I quickly cut all our beautiful, blooming spring flowers last night before the cold and snow came. Sad. Although, I think I am more pleased to have them all inside where I can look at them constantly rather than in the front yard where we rarely go. It actually isn't all that bad out there - I mean it is spring, snow blew like a blizzard for about 45 minutes this morning and it is 30 something degrees - but it isn't sticking and it isn't dark and it isn't really even raining anymore. The sun and warm weather will be back in a few days - and we will just enjoy these in the meantime.

Here is where they were - they really are that bright. We bought the bulbs in Holland, MI a few years ago.

He just woke up, pardon the scowl.

Now, I have to admit that not all of the daffodils were actually in our yard. The ones you see in the picture above are also in the vase in my kitchen. Mike says I have issues with generational sin. My mother got busted a few years ago (at Easter if I remember correctly), hopping the fence behind her house and lifting some tulips from a neighbor lady. Her explanation was that the woman had been moved to an assisted living facility and there wasn't anyone there to enjoy her flowers anyway. Mother thought she was doing her a service. Wouldn't you want someone to pick and enjoy your tulips if you weren't there. The thing is, my mother really would - so she assumed...well, turns out another neighbor spotted out her back window and called the elderly woman's daugther and told on my mother! My mother then got a nasty phone call from the daughter. If I remember right the woman didn't even give my mother a chance to give her logical explanation - she just chewed her out and hung up.

When Mike questioned my morals, I reminded him that these neighbors are never even out in their yard (most of the flowers I picked were in the back) and most of them (the flowers, not the neighbors) were dying or would be dead from frost bite after these next couple of days anyway. And PLUS I am the one who weeds their flower beds anyway! I was SAVING these flowers...and collecting a little allowance for my weeding chores. Maybe I should go ask if they would like to keep them inside their house? Durn conviction!