May 6: Lilac bush

I bought a lilac bush to plant for my mother for Mother's Day. Right now it is in its black plastic pot out on my balcony, waiting to be loaded into the car and hauled home to the farm. It's... well, a bush, all splayed out and bushy. It has smallish, pointed leaves and some flower stalks that might be the beginning or the end of blossoms, I can't tell. As soon as I put it out there, suddenly the balcony looked many times wilder and felt more nourishing. It was uncanny. I have the whole area lined with more pots than there's really space for, full of ungroomed herbs and tomato plants and volunteer tree saplings, but it all looked very sedate and planned until I added the lilac bush. I almost feel like if I left it out there for another day, there would be birds nesting.