3-20-12

First day of spring, 2012
Jeffersonia diphylla, also known as Twin Leaf is my favorite native wild flower. When I lived in Charlottesville, a student gave me one and I planted it by my front door step. It thrived. See http://chrissysphotoaday.blogspot.com/2007/04/3-26-07.html
 http://chrissysphotoaday.blogspot.com/2008/03/3-20-08.html
http://chrissysphotoaday.blogspot.com/2009/06/6-25-09.html

When we left Virginia three years ago I dug it up to bring it with me here. I put it in a pot and left it with a friend to water until I could retrieve it.
It died.
I was sad.
Very sad.
When we moved into this house in July of 2009, I spotted the twin leaves in one of the back gardens and asked the former owner if it was Twin Leaf and she said it was. However, so many things crowded out the garden back there, that I never saw the Twin Leaf plant again.
Today, I saw that I have FOUR plants! FOUR! I'm going to move them "out of the woods" so they can be enjoyed more, cherished more, and get a little more sunlight.

Now to find something in life that this symbolically represents on this first day of spring 2012. Hmmmm...Any ideas? What once was lost is now found... four fold?

Spent all morning giving a workshop for 50 teachers and tomorrow will be a repeat. It takes the wind out of me, for sure. I came home at 1pm dead tired, sick, dizzy, nauseous, and took to bed.