Lilies

"...by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil -- widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower" (381). George Eliot, Middlemarch

These are the only lilies that survived long enough to bloom this year in my tiny 1 x 1 ft. square garden. People cut down or stepped on the others. It's difficult growing flowers here. But I keep trying.