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 win...