The best miracles ...

Suddenly, when he least expected it, came a burst of beauty from the small patch of prairie flowers he planted last summer.

This little white flower inside the purple star is a columbine. Last fall he considered the columbine one of the season's small failures; now he realized that those August plantings had come after this particular flower's blooming season.

The best pleasures in life are the unexpected delights that you had to reason to suspect was coming. Or the ones you shoulda know were coming ...