Bulb planting considered

So after the rain earlier this week, I got busy and planted some bulbs (tulip, crocus, grape hyacinth) and the WHOLE TIME I planted I thought to myself, "These won't bloom. How can they possibly bloom? They're so little and you plant them so deep and those shoots have to work REALLY hard to push through the ground, which is like concrete and yeah. These won't bloom."

This is the way I think about things a lot. I used to be optimistic, but now I'm always waiting for things to go south. BECAUSE THEY DO. Or not. But I always think they will. I don't have much faith, as it turns out. I am a surprisingly faith-less human being.

And yet every spring my garden is full of glistening tulips.

Awesome, isn't it?

And one more resolution . . .

Yeah, so I get that my blog is REALLY colorless. I'm not very technologically inclined. Even GETTING a blog (as well as updating my website this year--thanks, Chris Longhurst!) was a big big deal for me. But. Really. Every day I check out my friend Lisa Bickmore's fabulous blog (www.hightouchmegastore.net) and what strikes me is how truly gorgeous it is to look at. So I'm going to challenge myself to learn how to a. use my digital camera and b. upload pictures onto this blog. I think my pictures will be shots of my garden just because I like it. And it inspires me.

Stay tuned.