You Never Know What You're Going To Get...Unless You Do Some Research, Of Course

 It seemed to take our new flowers a long time to get here. When we put together our front yard, we decided to plant flowers. We bought some spring bulbs and planted them in the fall. We waited half a year before we saw them.

They were worth the wait.

This spring, we happened upon more bulbs. I didn't know what kind they were, but we planted them anyway. Had I done a little research, I would have known. The starts sprang out of the ground relatively quickly, then we waited...

And waited...

And waited...

The stalks grew and grew. I wondered if we'd get any flowers at all, but eventually, the flowers arrived.

They weren't what I expected.

Now, to be honest, I had no idea what they would look like...maybe like tulips or some of the other spring flowers we have. What we got are beautiful, spiky things in vibrant colors.

It's been fun waiting to see what would eventually show up in our little flower patch. It's one of the funner things of gardening.

This Morning's Sunrise...A Few Hours In A Few Seconds

 I've done this before, post a time lapse video of the sunrise over the Rocky Mountains. It's from my office window. I set up my older iPhone in the window and captured several hours of time in a few seconds. It may not be the best quality video, but it works for me.

You never know what you'll get with a sunrise (or a sunset, or for a lot of things, for that matter...). Sometimes I sit in my work chair and the colors are so beautiful, but I can't capture them with a photo. This morning's sunrise had those colors, too. I thought maybe the time lapse video would showcase some of those colors...oh, they're there, but they disappear in a split section.

As with every time I do this, I captured some things I expected...the clouds moving, the sun rising. I did not expect a thin layer of mist covering the valley floor.

I've done this before. I just wanted to let you know what I was able to see as I worked this morning.

You Never Know What You're Going To Get...

 We tried a new restaurant last week...

You never know what you're going to get.

There are fewer places to eat in this new town of ours. We were spoiled living among the millions, at least as far as food choices went. Within thirty miles of our house, we could find almost any type of food--not that we tried every kind of food, but knowing we had the options...that's what counted.

When I say it was a "new" place, I mean that in more ways than one. It was new for us--our first time, but also a new for them. I believe they've only been open a few months, if that.

You're probably wondering, how was it?

It was...okay.

That's the thing about trying something new. I don't know how much the newness affected our opinion. Did we anticipate it being better than it was? Did we give the restaurant an unfair bias before even one morsel of food was consumed? 

Maybe.

Plus, it was a Mexican restaurant...and that's hard to get right, or east to not get right.

Will we return? Possibly. Too soon to tell, I suppose. Since there's not a lot of places to eat up here, we might. I guess next time we go, we'll have a better idea of what we're going to get.