Pictures & planting seeds

This is me*, as of late:

*artist’s interpretation

I recently saw a bat* for the first time while watching Iron Man in the park:

*bat not pictured

I have been more excited about this than a lot of things in recent times: I planted the “Garden in a Bag” that Derek gave me for Christmas last week, and they already sprouted!

I named the top one Seymour and the weak looking one the bottom Derek. There are two more that have yet to peak out! I think seeds are the craziest things. Derek was trying to do something on his computer and I kept commenting, “Isn’t this amazing?” Like, this happened in the course of one day. I looked in the morning and when I came home at night all these little twisty twirlies were saying hello. I just want to plant a million seeds and watch them grow.  This makes me think of the song Ida, My by Annuals: Planting seeds can’t be the only way to find a simple day, a simpler way.