Life Finds A Way

I've spent this Good Friday raking leaves off the gardens. Those of you in more Southern climes probably did that months ago. It's something I really like doing. It is really knd of amazing when you think of it that life finds a way to regenerate after a long winter. Ours wasn't particularly cold, but still a Minnesota winter is not exactly life sustaining. Yet the perennials poke their way through the ground and grow in the way the climate allows. Though we help the process by covering the gardens with leaves, it's nothing that might not happen naturally.



And this idea of life finding a way regardless of the odds struck me often on our trip to Zion. These trees growing out of the side of a wall of rock amazed me. How can they survive in such a tough climate growing out of the side of a rock? Yet they not only survive, they flourish.



And the flowers find a way to bloom as the snow melts, before the high temperatures begin to average over 100 degrees.



They are prettier to me because of the seemingly inhospitable conditions they grow in.



Spring, you have to love it.