Growing in the sunshine....

I learn a lot from the things growing around me. (Mostly that would be my kids and the things in my yard.) This afternoon I'm in the yard -- trying to keep my back to the sun as my face is sunburned from a really nice bike ride along the Bay in Emeryville and through Berkeley -- watering in the afternoon breeze.

One thing I learn (although in truth, I already knew this but conveniently let myself forget, over and over) is that when I water the lavender, the spikes are actually green rather than dry-stick-brown and purple flowers grow on the ends. Oh...water something and it will grow....While I'm watering, I spray off the overgrown frissee. Recalling that I meant to see about "pruning" it earlier in the week -- except I couldn't find any advice about how to "prune" lettuce and so I left it.

I'm using the hose on a few nesting spit bugs or aphids, (realizing that although I loathe death and destruction, I do not hesitate long before picking off the impossibly bright green bugs and squishing them onto the pavement), and I notice something purple. The lettuce, on its way to going to seed I suppose, is about the let lovely purple flowers open along its top. Good thing I didn't cut those stalks down earlier in the week.

If I'd snipped the frissee, I never would have been witness to the purple flowers....What's my lesson? Water things and they grow? Give a little attention and life happens? Let something go, take another direction than the one I'd intended, and I might be surprised with something lovely?....

It's all good....