IT BLOOMED!!!!!

Please excuse the screaming, but long-time readers of this blog know that I have waited literally years for this event. I was making my daily trip to the composter with my morning coffee filter and coffee grounds when I spotted some white by the birdbath. My composter is a tad full and I leave the top off of it so when the coffee filters dry out, they have a tendency to fly around the yard when it gets a little breezy. I am constantly picking them up all over the yard and putting them back into the composter.

As I got closer to the birdbath, I realized that what I was seeing was not a coffee filter. It was (drumroll, please) . . .

. . . a hellebore blossom!

As you may recall, I planted the hellebores in fall 2004. Let me repeat that, FALL 2004. Other than getting larger each year, they have done exactly zero for for 2 1/2 years. So there was a lot of screaming and dancing around today. Then I came to my senses and dashed into the house to grab my camera before something happened to the flower. Like a hungry squirrel or sudden ice storm. It could happen, you know! It is January.

The downside of this event is that now I'm going to have to find something else to complain about. Like the fact that I can never get foxglove to grow from seed while everyone else is "weeding" them from their gardens.