Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Yellow on the inside, white outside. Eggs?

The color yellow is not prevalent in Minnesota's April, especially on the first of the month. And that's no fool's joke. But St Paul has the Spring Flower Show at the Marjorie McNeely Conservatory over in Como Park. The weather outside was dreary. We suffered some more snow fall, so, in hopes of finding the theme day color - and psychic healing - I took a trip to the Flower Show. These are indoor plants, obviously, but ones that will be growing outside here in the not so distant future. The yellow tulips are growing next to the reflecting pool in the Sunken Garden.

These seem to be daffodils of some ilk against the rock ledge. Amazingly, the predominant color in the show is yellow. There were some whites and reds and oranges, too, but mainly the theme color.
To show what outside was like today, I carefully composed(?) the next photo of the reflecting pool outside the Conservatory building. You can see the fringe of white - snow - on the lawn.

April in the Saintly city. I wonder what the cows are doing over on Cleveland Avenue. And the Tulip Festival can't be that far off either.

3 comments:

Santini said...

Really lovely photos. Thanks for taking them!

Santini said...

We have another month to go before Tulip Time. Early May.

Santini said...

2009 Tulip time is April 29 through May 9. There will be some nice parades, I predict. And pretty yellow flowers.