Colour Joy

Spring. It was that kind of a day, on the tulip shot.

Tulip glory, in the late spring afternoon light

Billy Collins describes it best:

If ever there was a spring day so perfect,
so uplifted by a warm intermittent breeze
 
that it made you want to throw
open all the windows in the house
 
and unlatch the door to the canary’s cage,
indeed, rip the little door from its jamb,
 
a day when the cool brick paths
and the garden bursting with peonies
 
seemed so etched in sunlight
that you felt like taking
 
a hammer to the glass paperweight
on the living room end table,
 
releasing the inhabitants
from their snow-covered cottage
 
so they could walk out,
holding hands and squinting
 
into this larger dome of blue and white,
well, today is just that kind of day.