REBIRTH

Is there anything more exciting than watching a garden slowly come back to life?

Mexican Bird of Paradise

Unless, of course, it's seeing a loved one come back to life.

Wild verbena popping up in our stone pathway.

Cow's Tongue -- the first I've managed to overwinter out of doors -- beginning to bloom.

We haven't received official word from the Scary Shit Specialist yet, but we did put in a call to his lab techs yesterday.

A morning glory bush my friend Nicki gave me last fall, which spent the winter in a pot and just got planted a few weeks ago.

All the yuccas are sending up blooms.

They told us his blood cultures came back negative.

Picture me dancing my way through the garden, singing "Ding dong, the staph is dead!"