New Color in the Greensboro Garden

Surprise lilies in the garden.

We’ve been in our little bungalow in Greensboro for less than a month. We haven’t done too much planting as we learn the lay of the literal land. There are some things that were obvious from the beginning, like the classic Southern camellia-azalea combo that contributed to my falling in love at first sight, but it’s also been fun watching things spring up (ha!), like these lilies. First came the red. I thought, how lovely to have these wine-red beauties to remind me of glasses on the patio at Telaya in Idaho or of many, many on plazas in Spain. But then the white came along, and again I though of Idaho and Spain. This time it was a crisp Txakoli, being refreshed by it on a hot summer day on the Basque block, being ribbed for my pronunciation when ordering it in Bilbao. (I like wine.) And today, the sunny, sunny yellow. All I can think about now is what will pop up next.