SNOWDROPS

My husband Steven and I were driving by the house my oldest son Max would soon be moving into.

As we were driving by the front of the house I stopped the car. “What are those?” I said as I pointed to some white flowers that were popping up by the front door.

Steven shook his head. “I’m not sure. Maybe they’re crocuses? Don’t they come out in March?”

I pulled the car to the curb and put it in park. Getting out, I went over to the little white flowers. “They’re not crocuses!” I called back to Steven, who was still in the car but had lowered his window.

I took my phone out and went to my Picture This app. Bending over I got as close to the flower as possible before snapping it’s picture. Within seconds their picture came up with a description.

“They’re snowdrops.” I said as I walked back to the car. I handed him my phone as I climbed back in the car. He handed me back the phone and I began reading more about them.“They’re also called Fair Maids of February and Little Sister of the Snows.” I looked over at Steven and smiled. “Ah…isn’t that the cutest?”

Steven shook his head and laughed.

I was still looking at the picture. “Why haven’t I ever seen these before?” I looked over at Steven. “Have you ever seen these before?”

“Nope.”

“I can’t believe I’ve never seen these before.” I was still scrolling through the plant description. “It says they’re a very hardy perennial that’s great for a beginner gardener.” I looked back at Steven. “Well that certainly sounds like a plant I won’t be able to kill very easily.”

“Hey, don’t be so hard on yourself.” Steven patted me on the shoulder. “It’s really only vegetable plants that you kill.”

I shrugged my shoulders. “That’s true.” I held up my pointer finger. “But to be fair the squirrels and chipmunks were nibbling on my tomato plants.”

“You also forgot to water them.” Steven reminded me.

“Okay, fine.” I sighed. “Let’s get back to the snowdrop plants, shall we.” I began reading again. “It says we can wait until the fall and plant them as bulbs or plant them now already blooming.”

I put the phone in the console. “Well, that’s settled then.” I put the car in drive and pulled away from the curb.

“What’s settled?” Steven asked.

“Let’s swing by a garden center and see if they have them in stock.”

“Now?”

I looked over at Steven. “That’s what I was thinking. Why not?”

“I thought we were going to go by the house and then go get something to eat.”

“Oh yeah.” We were stopped at a red light. “Well, how hungry are you?”

Just then I heard Steven’s stomach growling.

Steven pointed to his stomach. “I’m going to say pretty hungry!”

“Okay, fine.” The light had turned green and we started to go again. “I guess I can always run to the garden center tomorrow and look for them.”

Steven patted his stomach. “My stomach thanks you for that decision.”