In the

“Shameless Use of Children and Imagination to Gain Public Attention for One’s Campaign,”

Democratic Party McHenry County Coroner candidate Dave Bachmann wins first prize.

I mentioned that I would run a picture of the first flower of spring in McHenry County.

Here are his children Mauricio and Laura Sanchez Bachmann holding fabric flowers.

He writes they are the first flowers in Hebron.

Let me be clearer on what I am looking for:

The first flower that blooms from a bulb planted in the soil in anyone’s yard this spring.

As usual, the picture may be enlarged by clicking on it.