You sure are a persuasive bunch. I’ve been so touched by your kind comments to my previous post cajoling me to keep blogging—even if some of you were just being polite, like your mothers taught you.
Apparently my approach to blogging is as flawed as my approach to gardening. I go and get these ideas in my head about how things should be in a perfect world and forget that sometimes a beautiful thing “just happens” along the way, such as having readers who care. And when it does I should probably just go with it.
It’s kind of like the variegated columbine I planted a couple of years ago. I worried and fretted and stewed over finding just the perfect spot for it in the garden. Then I forgot to water it, and it died. Story of my life.
What I didn’t realize was that the columbine had scattered a zillion seeds. When I noticed them sprouting, I didn’t expect much. But I let them grow—mostly because I didn’t have any better ideas for that bare spot.
The first year, the little columbines grew slowly and didn’t bloom at all. But the foliage was pretty and slug-proof(!) and sprang back quickly after winter. So I let them grow for another season.
This year, they’re huge and blooming profusely. Nevermind that for a perfect world, they’re planted too close together and entirely without rhyme or reason and are too tall for that spot.
And nevermind the little voice in my head that’s already scheming to dig them up and move them to “a better spot,” to tweak and edit and make that little part of the garden perfect, as I attempt to do with so much of my life. To that little voice, I say: Sit down and shut up. Sometimes happy accidents happen. And when they do, go with it.
And so it is with blogging. Apparently, somewhere along the way, I scattered some seeds among you that I didn’t realize were growing. Thank you for all of your previous comments letting me know.
So I’ll be sticking around this spot for a while longer. Even if this goes down in history as the gloomiest Pacific Northwest summer ever, surely I can come up with something worthwhile to say about something or other. Besides, I prefer flower photos with raindrops anyway.
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