Our living room is being overrun with plants. Over 125 of them. We started them as seeds a couple of weeks ago and so far, they are growing like crazy. It is our hope that this summer we will be able to enjoy the conglomeration of colors and smells that the poppies, hollyhocks, black-eyed susans, sunflowers, english roses, and zinnias will provide should their full growth come to fruition.
There is something so amazing and mysterious about watching a little plant pop up through the soil and reach its leaves up to the sunshine (or in our case, sunlamp). It's so natural and perfect and something inside me stirs when it happens, as if I am somehow nurturing the process just by caring about their progress. Even such a small thing reminds me of God's power for giving life and His amazing knack for creating beautiful things that we inherently were meant to enjoy.
Every morning, Joe and I check on the progress of the bright green stalks and we eagerly announce to each other when we see new growth. We've worked together to transplant each little plant as it outgrows its pod and have baskets and pots ready outside for when it is finally time to create our gardens. Joe spends time after work moving the plants back and forth from the living room to the deck to the living room to help "harden" them up and ready them for their new home. I make sure their soil never gets too dried out. Now, we are just waiting for the rain to ease up so that the transition to the outdoors won't result in "death by drowning" before the plants even get a chance to try to live in a habitat much more natural than our living room window sill. We hope it won't be too long now....we're running out of window space!
I'll keep you posted as to the progress. I hope that in a month or two I'll be able to post pictures of actual flowers!
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