HOPE

A couple of weeks ago I "discovered" a plant that had been the same size and same color,green, on all my winter trips home to Louisiana.  I asked my neighbor who sometimes waters our nearby tomatoes if he had seen it bloom in previous summers.  "No. I never even noticed it," he replied.

Yesterday, while throwing the ball for Mattie, our Border Collie, I saw orangey red blossoms on the mysterious vine! It had waited patiently for me to finally be home long enough to feed and water it!

Our nanny has had this in her back yard for years and I have always loved it.  I must have planted it years ago.  It is a southern variation of trumpet honeysuckle called coral honeysuckle.

I believe my statue of Saint Fiacra, patron saint of gardeners, bas been back there watching and waiting all this time.

Merci.