everything is growing!

i have a bit of a love/hate thing with my yard. i love to watch things grow. i love the wilderness of it, when it's a mess. i love that its the opposite of the boring suburb where i grew up. i love that its just there, doing whatever it wants to do, in an non-orderly fashion.

...BUT... part of me kind of also hates the mess of it and wants a perfectly manicured lawn with perfect-sized bushes, perfect-sized trees, and matching colors that all bloom at exactly the right time. (now that i type this out i think this might actually be the way i am about a lot of things.)

in any event: i planted bulbs for the first time this past fall, and NOW! Ta da! everything is growing!

these are the soon-to-be tulips in my front yard. the colors are a mystery. we'll see! (disregard the clumpy grass and the wood chips scattered near and far by the neighbor's roaming chickens...)