Lizzie’s post about Jodie’s gift reminded me that, although I took many photos, I never actually posted about my gift from Micah & Lizzie last year.

Besides several awesome cookbooks with my husband’s Vegan eating habits in mind, they gave us these beautiful paperwhite narcissus, and a bulb vase. Within a few days we watched one grow from this:

to this:

to this!

Very beautiful and cosmopolitan, don’t you think? Ah, and it smelled SO wonderful to have that fresh scent of spring breezing through the house in those never-ending winter months.

Then we potted it, hoping for a rebloom. Unfortunately, to all appearances, it looked dead and unreviving. I finally stopped watering it. The remainder of the bulbs were a dilemma; do we plant them here just to uproot them soon and carry off to this other lovely house we wish we’d bought? Or do we just wait a little longer before planting them? We opted to wait, but I worried I had waited too long when over a month later we still hadn’t planted the darlings.In desperation I just added them to our container vegetable patch with the beets. Keane flooded the containers on several occasions, and I was certain nothing in there would survive, not even the beets.

Fortunately I am both a procrastinator so I never threw the seemingly dead bulbs out, and have a firm belief in the desire of plants to survive against all odds. And they usually prove me right. Since I kept and planted all the bulbs, I was delighted to find this at the end of the summer:

And even our potted plant that looked totally dead and unreviving sprouted! I can’t find the photos I took around the beginning of their rejuvenation, but here’s one by Neils taken today:

In case we never thanked you sufficiently before, thanks again! We love our resilient flowers!