Winner:
“What next? Summer roses in Speedos?”
Sophia Francesca Scolaro, Palos Heights
Extras:
“Why would Rahm hang his coat on a flower?”
Jim O’Neill, Chicago
“I admit we put you outside too early this Spring, but there’s no call for sarcasm.”
Gary Katz, Long Grove
“And we thought just getting it legalized would be our biggest problem.”
Dave Strom, Lockport
“Do you think this will cancel the tulip festival?”
Phil McCracken , Marseilles
“You say this will help my allergies.”
Tom Hufnagel , Marseilles
“By July, it will have a light sweater.”
Mike Rourke, Chicago
“Springtime delayed is Springtime denied.”
Steve Hanan, Morton Grove
“Despite sleet, snow, and rain daffodils rise to glow.”
Barbara McNeill, Grayslake
“That’s a ‘Chilly Lily’, (freezicus lilium chicagoanense)!”
Peter Janda, Arlington Heights
“Patience! Chillcago will end.”
Julie Walsh Doran, Ogden Dunes Indiana
“Narcissus Chicagous – developed especially for Chicago’s bipolar springs.”
Joanna Kotecki, Vernon Hills
“It’s genetically modified to survive spring in Chicago” “
Frederick Kocian, Inverness
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“Don’t be concerned. It is just spring in Chicago.”
Lorraine Condic, Lake Forest
“I mean the plants around Chicago adapt REALLY fast!”
Joel Wittert , Crete
“I bought the seeds online from a Chernobyl nursery.”
Jerry Levy, Deerfield
“It’s a new breed: Lily-of-the-Parka.” and
“It’s a new breed: Maricold.”
David Hart , Oak Park
“I got it at Bloomingdales.”
Linda Poindexter, Branford, FL.
“More proof that global warming is a hoax.”
Christopher Hall, Libertyville
“It’s going to freeze its stem off!”
Ron Loch, Cary
“A sure sign of spring in Chicago”
Connie Cutler, St Charles
“I think people will like this genetic modification.”
Ed Washak, Yorkville
“It’s a Chicago native flower. Instead of packing a petal it packs a pistol.” and
“Like South Park, it’s got stamin-a…”
Sean D., Elmhurst
“Daffy-down-Dilly
has come to town
Wearing a parka
filled with down
No flimsy petticoat
no pretty Spring gown
Daffy-down-Dilly”
With apologies to Nathaniel Hawthorne
Leslie Tidaback Hilmer, Stevensville Michigan