Life's Surprises

I am all for a good solid plan. Yet I have learned, usually the hard way, that the best laid plans often fall apart. However  if we stop and look, magic can be found in the debris.

My garden teaches me this lesson every year.

My plans in late winter rarely match the midsummer landscape.

Mother nature always surprises me in ways I could never have planned.

Take this sunflower for example:

 I didn't plant it. It simply showed up in my vegetable garden and keeps growing taller and taller.

I also had plans to line my driveway with annuals like I did last year.

These showed up instead;

                                                          Cleomes do in fact self seed.

Life is full of surprises.

Blessings,
Virginia