Catch-up

It has been a while and I have been busy.  After living in a town for three years, there is a lot to "get done."  Some of it is just practtical necessities.  You know, do I really want to carry this 700 miles away or can I get rid of/recycle/give away/sell/throw.  Someone I once knew said it was great to purge and essentially, happiness was a dumpster!  I am not sure I am that focused on purging, but I am not moving all this crap.  I'm just not.

In spite of my multi-page to-do-list, I took most of a day to go to Port Wing.  I had an important task--I wanted to plant flowers.  Yep, I drove 400 miles in one day so I could plant flowers on my land.  After scratching through the weeds,  lavender, sunflowers, daisies, and lots of other wild flowers were planted.  Well, at least seeds were sown.

I am hopeful.  I think that is why I planted the flowers.  There is pretty good empirical evidence that planting flowers on that God's little green acre was at best silly and maybe even futile.  I didn't have the right or best tools, and the soil was covered with sod that hasn't been tilled in 30 or 40 years.  The soil was cold, and in places it was too wet/dry/thick/thin or clay-like.  There were a million reasons not to take a whole day to plant flowers.  But I did take this risk because I do believe that it was worth it.  I AM hopeful. I want those flowers to grow.  Even if only a few flowers grow the time/effort/risk would be worth it.  I am glad I did it, and you know what?  I would do it again to be that hopeful.  I can't wait to visit to see if they are growing.  I am guessing about the end of June...

The photos are of some birch trees (now that is a surprise!) because they almost glowed in the spring light.  The beach scenes indicate that it might be a long time before people are swimming in Lake Superior--the ice will melt, but probably only in June.  The sunset is from a graduation cruise in Madison.  One of the best of things of Madison (well, anywhere) are the bookstores.  This is from one of my favorites, Paul's Books.