Anyone who has a bulb, has spring. ~ Anonymous

A gift from my friend Kent the week before Christmas, this pot of spring bulbs has begun blooming in the past couple weeks.  For someone in Outside Gardening Withdrawal, a pot of pretty flowers in the windowsill is bliss.  ♥

Oh I wish it was spring of the year again. Forsythia bloomin' by the fence and the Crocus comin' up through the snow. . . . ~ Olivia Walton in The Homecoming

The local church's garden that had such beautiful Irises in bloom last spring has patches of egg yolk-and-indigo-colored Crocuses today.  I've never been a big Crocus-lover, but after the seemingly never-ending winter this year, every single one I spot peeping out in yards around town delights me.  Springtime!  Bring it!