Sometimes...

           " Sometimes a light surprises ..."

     One day I planted a rare bulb { with label } in a pot outside Reception. Year by year it faithfully came up, looked promising,

         then faded away ....       Each year I meant to pull it out ...waste of space...plant it somewhere else, 

     meanwhile the label faded into obscurity. This year, many moons later, to my ASTONISHMENT there came a bud ... then another,

     then one morning it showed its true self:

                                      Teaching me  Patience IS a virtue ...