I love Spring!

I know the calendar says it is not Spring for 12 more days, but when I opened the door this morning, I hear birds singing. Plus 2 of the 3 feet of snow on my back porch melted since yesterday. This morning, enough snow had melted in the front yard that I was able to see the bulbs I planted in the Fall peeking up through the soil!!! I don’t know why it seems so exciting to me, you plant tomatoes you get tomatoes! But those bulbs -you plant them and they look like nothing. It rains, it snows you have Halloween, Christmas, New Year’s, Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day and finally by Easter -VOILA!!! You have daffodils and tulips. If you didn’t believe in miracles before, you really ought to now.

When we bought this house last year, the first thing I asked was if they had bulbs. Sadly, no, they hadn’t planted any in the 25 years they lived here. I don’t even know how that is possible! So, when Costco started selling their bags of bulbs I bought them. Even then, you look at this white bag with beautiful flowers on the packaging and when you open it there are just brown onion looking clumps… was this a waste of money? The beautiful bags with the ugly contents sat in the garage for weeks - months? Finally when I was worried the ground would be freezing soon, I got out my little hand trowel and put 3-4 bulbs together in a hole. Three daffodils here. Three tulips there. All around the front yard.
This is the sign for Spring
I guess they still don’t look like much. Just a bit of green poking up through the brown leaves and dirt. But every time I walk by, I imagine what they will look like. The suspense is almost over. And I wonder, can I bring THIS excitement to the next bag of brown onion looking bulbs I buy? If so, there is no way I will consider it a waste of money.

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