I'm Still Here

In October Bob and I visited a favorite nursery near LaConner and brought home various pots of herbs, a maidenhair fern, and newly potted bulbs of paperwhite narcissus for forcing. I titled my Blog posting for the day, “When the Paperwhites Bloom, I’ll Be Here,” and I wrote…

The pot of narcissus bulbs sits near a south facing window, the green tips an inch high. I have no doubt that I will still be here when their sweet scented blooms brighten a winter day.

Winter is still weeks away, but today the delicate blooms of those paperwhite narcissus fill the room with the fragrance of spring… just in time for Thanksgiving. A marvelous confusion of time, but I am still here. Bob says I need to aim for something a little farther away. How about my birthday in May?

… P. L. Morningstar