Tulip

The weather has been so unusually cool this spring -
A welcomed side effect of this aberration has been the prolonged blooming
of tulips. Three weeks of blooms. Normally, they last
at the most, maybe two weeks. This bloom is the last
straggler. The bunny who frequents the garden broke
the stem of this tulip in a hasty escape from Cleo cat's
stalking curiosity. As the poet Mary Oliver says
" oh, to love what is lovely, and will not last "