A budding garden

 

 

It looks like an ordinary welcome mat.

 

But there is something else going on.  Zoom in close.

 

It’s a tiny volunteer garden that popped up after we got rain a week ago and the mat got wet.  The mat is in front of the deck stairs, in the shade of the driveway cover.  These are just the primary “first leaves” so we can’t I.D. them.  We could give the mat a good brushing and dry it out in the sun to save it, but at the risk of sacrificing the mat, we’d rather watch for secondary leaves to appear and figure out who these hardy pioneers are.

 

We’ll call it a science experiment.