Garden Pictures

Gardening is very confusing to my sense of accomplishment. I plant a bunch of seeds, and two weeks later, the yard is full of seedlings, so I feel accomplished. Then I identify half of them as weeds, and I don't feel accomplished. So I pull the half of them that I've identified as weeds, and I feel accomplished. A week later, a bunch of the previous week's weeds have grown back again, but also I figure out that half of the others are a different kind of weed, so I don't feel accomplished. And the more weeds I successfully identify and pull, the more I just end up with a yard full of seedlings that could very well still be weeds, just not weeds I've been able to identify yet.

So I've decided that the best course of action for now is to just obsess over the few - very few - seedlings that I know I did plant. Like my one baby lupine. Someday, it may grow up to look like this.



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