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| Marlene Terry |
We're enjoying the last warm days of this year, with a hard frost ahead in the near future.
That's why I’m prompted to devote a little time and space to the lovely little purple daisies that line the front walk way at my home.
That's why I’m prompted to devote a little time and space to the lovely little purple daisies that line the front walk way at my home.
Don’t know
the official name for those little flowers, but I never walk outside to the
front or drive out of my garage that the sight of them just doesn’t make me
happy.
However, they ARE annuals.
That means
when that hard frost does come, they’ll be history!
As in the blossoms and the plant itself will die completely away and not
return next spring.
The biggest problem
with that is they truly do deserve to return, as they struggled all summer
in scorching 100-degree heat, and braved wicked and destructive wind and hailstorms.
… In fact, I actually thought, a time or two, they just wouldn’t survive. And if the truth be known, all that stress made them well, unattractive, to say the least.
… In fact, I actually thought, a time or two, they just wouldn’t survive. And if the truth be known, all that stress made them well, unattractive, to say the least.
The earwigs
also found them and were enjoying the leaves for lunch most days, leaving only
large gaping holes surrounded by a green membrane as a remembrance of what was
once there.
... And some
cute little neighbor kids who held an invitational tag meet with friends one
night, tromped most of what was left of the plants down into the ground about as far as they
could go.
It was
really like a miracle.
After the heat subsided and we were thrown immediately into fall a few weeks ago, the cooler temperatures seemed to refresh those little plants and surprisingly they began to grow … and at an accelerated pace!
After the heat subsided and we were thrown immediately into fall a few weeks ago, the cooler temperatures seemed to refresh those little plants and surprisingly they began to grow … and at an accelerated pace!
One
day they were just wilted, ragged looking, green stringy vegetation. And then
suddenly there were buds. … Then a few purple blooms appeared.
And now?
... We’re just in awe of those gorgeous large lavender blooming bushes that as I said, make you happy just to look at them.
And now?
... We’re just in awe of those gorgeous large lavender blooming bushes that as I said, make you happy just to look at them.
It was as if they realized their time was running out to be able to show how wonderful they were and what they could do. And so they put out a supreme effort to make sure they wouldn't be forgotten.
... Sort of like the lessons we learn in that children's tale "The Little Engine that Could."
... Face every challenge determined to work hard and with the attitude “I think I can. … And
eventually and for sure ... we will!
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