Well, lookey there

It is raining out so I didn't really take the time to make sure I had a good picture, but hey - lookey there - I do believe it is peony shoots!

We've been fussing all winter about whether our peonies will survive - did we not set them high enough when we planted them? Why didn't they grow at all last summer after they flowered? Were they supposed to disappear entirely in winter? (You'd think I'd have Googled the growing habits of peonies and gotten some answers, with all this fussing, but sometimes a good Fuss is worth hanging on to.)

And see - all the fussing was worth it. We virtually WILLED them back into existence.

I have a feeling this is a bad political analogy.