ABUNDANCE can come from a SINGLE SEED. Figuratively or literally, PLANT ONE! (This arrangement was created from one plant/one seed.) Cosmos Cosmos bipinnatus

Give it all you GOT! Glacier Heirloom Tomato Lycopersicum esculentum

You REAP what you SOW. (Check out #1 on my “You Know Gardening Season Has Kicked Into High Gear When…” post. These beauties are what those slippery little seeds had to offer. Glad I stopped to pick up each and every one of them.)  Nasturtium Tropaeolum majus

HANG in THERE! Even when it’s not the popular thing to do. Walnut Specific type unknown

Don’t take NO for an answer! Thinking this little guy was dead, he got a one-way ticket to my compost pile. I said NO, he said YES!!! Elephant Ear Alocasia macrorrhizos

It’s NEVER too late! “I was  a LATE BLOOMER. But, anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.” –Sharon Olds (photographed 10-16-11) Rose Moondance-Rosa ‘Jactanic’

Start small, THINK BIG! Tiny acorn to mighty oak, a miracle. Red Oak Quercus rubra

*All photographs (with the exception of the walnut tree) were taken in our home and garden within the last two weeks.