Spring Springing Yet Some More

We drove up to B.C (the Sunshine Coast) on Wednesday, the day after the border meeting.  It is heart-breaking to leave the Point at this time of the year because everything (or at least something else) is just about to burst into bloom, including all the fruiting trees in our orchard.  We’ve had the daffodils at our house and they’re still looking great.  The purple blooms of the lunaria (silver dollar) are just starting, but they will go on and on.  However, the tulips are showing the colors in their buds and I don’t know whether they’ll last another two weeks, especially if we have a lot of rain, so I picked a dozen of them to take with us.  It is a good thing that the CBP allows us to move cut flowers over the border.  The tulips are now at home on our dining room table in Roberts Creek, pink and gold ones, orange ones with green mottling, and red ones with frilly edges, all happily blooming and helping me to fulfill my promise to keep at least a few flowers in the house all year long.

As we left, we stopped so Ed could take a picture of the spectacular show of daffodils on Tyee, the long block from Benson to Gulf.  The P.R. Garden Club has taken on the establishment and planting of this long row of berms on both side of the street, with the assistance (financial and material) of the County.  Last year was the first blooming spring in these beds and they were indeed very lovely, but this spring they are truly spectacular.  The show of bulbs began in March with beautiful little crocuses.  Now we have a world of bright yellow and pale yellow daffodils.  And the garden club keeps these beds blooming until fall with appropriate flowers of the season.  When the tall cosmos finished last year and were, at last, uprooted to prepare for the fall re-planting, it made for a fitting if hard to watch ending for this show.

What a spectacular job they have done with this.  In Vancouver, they also have big, fancy flower displays in spring, especially along Georgia near the entrance to Stanley Park.  But those are provided for us watchers by the city itself, and planted and tended by city employees.  In Pt. Roberts, it is a gift from our neighbors to all of us.  Thank you, very much, all of you who put in the work to make this happen!  We are truly in your debt.