Growth

Our hawthorn bush is starting to bloom! Look at what else has happened around the house...


Herbs and snapdragons before:


After:
(Look at that dill go!)


See the baby sprouts springing up from the transplanted liriope? They're still pretty sparse, but we're getting there.

Mysterious unidentified tall plant before:


And now:

Hydrangeas before:


After:

I think those little clusters of pods on the hydrangeas are going to turn into flowers!
Baby hostas and bare dogwood tree before:


And now:

The Parable of the Sower

³Then he told them many things in parables, saying: "A farmer went out to sow his seed. ⁴As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. ⁵Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. ⁶But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. ⁷Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants. ⁸Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop—a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown. ⁹He who has ears, let him hear." Matthew 13:3-9