Happy Mayday!

I'm patiently waiting for the first tulip in my tiny garden to open out. It looks pinkish but I wonder if it will mature into a red one?

I need to plant the rest of my summer flower bulbs soon. There's maybe about 2 dozen still to plant. I bought them mail order to get freebies. The bulbs and roots actually came in March but I had to delay planting them because we had frosts here all March and much of April. I stuck them in the dark airing cupboard and the warmth brought them all on. I hope they survive outside.

I watched the first programme in the BBC1 series on the impressionist painters. Its a dramatization of the lives of Monet, Renoir, Cezanne, Degas and so forth. It was interesting to realise Monet started out in poverty and kept going, painting outdoors (starting the pleine aire modern movement) , despite not selling work for ages.