How to go from Christmas to Easter..

..in one step.

This is not a tutorial anyone is going to want to follow.

You see, it is spring and I still had these Christmas lights up.

No excuse for it.

The weather has been beautiful.

I guess I was just being lazy.

You see, I sprayed these twigs white

and put them in my planters out front

and strung lights in them

one snowy

December day.

I thought they look cool.

And then

I didn't take them down.

This morning,

I walked out to get rid of them and this is what I found.

They are growing!

Racking my sleep-deprived brain,

I tried to remember where I cut them from.

think...

think...

THINK!

LILACS!

You see, I have this lilac bush that never blooms.

It gets tons of leaves,

but never a flower.

So I thought,

"Why not sacrifice it for Christmas decorations."

And now..

I have new lilac starts to plant somewhere else!

I could get all philosophical and spiritual about that...

new birth,

new life,

but really,

Who would have thought

spray painted,

dead branches

left cut all winter

would grow?

It has all the makings of a sermon.

And I would try that..

but right now,

I just need

more coffee,

a shower

and

head to work.

What a nice surprise this morning!