Tulip!

Time: throughout the week

Date: 10 November 2008- 16 November 2008

Climate: Room Temperature

Location: My dorm room, Shepherd House

A Tulip was left on my door the other day.  It was put on my corkboard on my door with pushpins but carefully so that they did not hurt the stem.  I left it out of water and after about a day it began to wilt a bit.  The stem and petals became soft and droopy. I soon put in a glass of water.  When I woke up the next morning the flower had become turgid again! I was glad because I was worried that I had perhaps killed it by not putting it in water early enough.  I kept it in water for a few days and then took it out because I was afraid it would die from too much water.  I went and alternated for a bit.  Then I decided to change the water and when I picked up the tulip, all of the petals fell off!  I barely even touched them and they fell off.  I was shocked and sad because it was such a pretty flower.  The petals were orange and then going towards the center it was green and then turned yellow.  But it was perfect.  It looked like there were no marks or anything on it.  It almost looked unreal but it wasn’t.