The glads are beginning to bloom. We didn't know what colors we had. It was a surprise to see that many of them will be a dark, rich, red.

In any garden, no matter how you plan and scheme and draw and sketch, there will always be surprises. Some good, some bad, but the good ones are just soo, soo good.

Balance and symmetry vs fractal geometry.

Plato vs Mandelbrot.

Sprouting chives.

How do seeds do that, anyway? The best I can tell, no one truly knows. Oh, they all claim to know, and they all claim to understand it all, but once you get past all the fancy words and the hand waving and the arguments...they really don't understand any more than you or I. It's a bit like knowing that combustion happens in a car when I turn the key and step on the gas. That's really about as far as anyone's really gotten in understanding all of this.

It's magic.*

(*A variation on Clarke's Third Law.)