Tulip season is back in Ýstanbul. Tulips of various colors, sizes and classes have blossomed throughout the city. Would you like to visit tulip gardens this weekend? If yes, then the most beautiful ones can be found at the Emirgan Korusu, the Blue Mosque, the Hidiv Kasrý and at Çamlýca.

When good things happen unexpectedly, we become much happier than usual. Like when the sun starts to shine through a dark and gray sky, when the bus pulls up to the bus stop the second we arrive, when an adorable rosy-cheeked baby smiles at us or right when you start to nibble at your fingers while anxiously waiting for the traffic to open up in Ýstanbul, you come across a vibrant flower garden. You wonder how, but before you have time to finish your thoughts that "just two days ago there was noting but dirt and dried-up grass," you find yourself smiling and enjoying the beautiful scene.

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And of course this song .......

beautiful Trudy! made me smile

Strange how most people think that Tulips are from Netherlands .......... we are surrounded by Tulips at this time of year, where I live on the east in the UK, it is close to an area called South Holland in Lincolnshire where Tulips are grown in abundance.  A couple of week time there will be the tulip parade.

 A message with a wink is not exactly your cup of tea, is it Libra?

 Just adding a boring inconsequential post about tulips.............. perhaps that is not your cup of tea??

  great now I´m singing that blasted song grrrr

 You think you´ve got problems!  It got me thinking of the ´little mice with clogs on´ one and now I can´t get THAT out of my head!! 

 ha ha....I like that one

 Sure canim, as you wish. But let´s say that humour is a gift, isn´t it?

 Is that a song? I loooooove to hear it!