just outside the window

A dear friend emailed me this quote today:

We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves. - Leonora Carrington 

This is my idea of an immediate gratification spring container garden.  Spring in Colorado is a hard time to create containers.  Too cold for most plants to survive.  There are tulips in containers that I planted last fall, but their tips are just peaking out of the soil right now.  On a recent grocery store excursion, I discovered tulip bulbs already in the pots and I snapped them up.  Once home, they went into the windowsill where they continued to grow for two weeks.  Yesterday I planted them up.  

First thing this morning, I looked out the window... Voila!