Bulbs are a lesson in faith

Hello, everyone.  I have always thought that gardening requires one to develop faith that things will, generally,  work out in the end. Today I was reflecting on that as I looked at the pots with saffron bulbs that spent so many months being dried up and dead-looking. A few days ago, responding to the change in season, and a little water, little green noses started poking out from the covering dirt.

A couple of sample pictures 

These bulbs are the descendants of a bag I got from High Country Gardens, a mail order nursery in Utah. The original bulbs, all 10 being together in a pot, bloomed beautifully. They were crowded, however, and they also had a very strong urge to make "pups" so the next year nothing much happened. Last spring I separated them out a bit, after they went dormant, and now I'm hoping they will all fatten up and maybe in a year or two bloom again.