purple surprise!

The Easter after Hurricane Katrina we went back to the house to see what had changed. It was a horrible mess down there, everywhere you looked was devastation! Except this little purple surprise! I planted this just outside my front door the summer before and it was not pretty at all, in fact it was not doing anything before the storm because it was August in Mississippi. But somehow it survived the storm and was so beautiful I had to take a picture of it. And then I had to paint it...