Life!

About two weeks ago we were excited to receive the gift of a fig tree. A friend was having some construction done in her yard and needed to remove the tree. It was much larger than we had anticipated and it was “shorn” of all its green when we picked it up, so by the time we returned it to the ground it looked like some strange stick sculpture...that had to be propped up by a cinder block.

We watered.

We held our breath.

 And we watered.

And we held our breath.

And...

a tiny bud and even...

a baby fig leaf.