Lilies

I think lilies are awesome. They are beautiful, smell delicious, but I love how they are so tenacious. They are a bulb flower, so they grow stalks and leaves, then bloom, then die, but the bulb lives, and the whole thing starts again next spring. What I think is amazing, is that year after year, they just keep coming back to life, even if I don't water them. No wonder lilies are a symbol of Easter, they are the perfect flower to remind us of the resurrection.

Every year, their stalks and leaves poke out in early spring, and remind me that there was something inside that pot! I'm always grateful I didn't decide to plant something else in there, because I forgot about them.

This year, they surprised me more than ever. First of all, almost everything in my garden that is not self sustaining has died...because with Emeline around, I'm not the best waterer. But what's more is that the lily pot somehow got knocked over over the winter months, and I didn't notice. But you know what happened? Those lilies did not give up. This is what I found when I went outside.

Tenacious lilies. Yeah :).