June 28: Blue

[neverspent]

Back in April, I planted some wildflower and coleus seeds among the flowers already started in some of my pots. The spring was wet and cool, and it took some of them a few weeks to germinate. They've been growing very slowly, it seems to me, but finally they're starting to look like they're meant to as adults -- the coleus are over an inch tall and have nicely colored leaves, and the wildflowers have grown up with soft, thin, silvery leaves which I managed to keep my cat from eating. A few days ago I noticed flower buds on a couple of the wildflower stalks. It was a mixed packet of seeds, so didn't know what they would be.

This morning, one of them was open. And it was blue! Blue wildflowers in midsummer are so rare here — blue is a spring color, and summer brings mostly yellows and golds and reds, maybe a dusty pink in the wild coneflowers, early on. It was such a surprise, such an unexpected little joy.