Mandala #34: Planting a Winter Garden / Flowering Quince Fruit Appears

At the end of 2017, I set a goal of creating at least 12 mandalas in 2018 with the intention of making a second mandala calendar.  Here is a tiny blurry screen shot of the iPhoto template I used, showing the cover of my 2018 calendar with the first two months.

I had three calendars made using that iPhoto template.  Then I found a less expensive way to make calendars locally.  This year, as of yesterday, I have completed 7 of the 12.  If I can create a mandala a week now, I will soon have my 12 mandalas for a 2019 calendar.  Today I am feeling confident that I will succeed.  When I began this mandala series, I created the first 7 mandalas between September 2014 and December 2014. 

In the past few days, I noticed a tiny quince fruit forming on the flowering quince on my porch.  This is the first time I have noticed a fruit on my flowering quince since it came to live on my porch in 2013, inspired by The Solitary Walker's book of poetry "Raining Quinces".  A little Googling shows that flowering quinces have their first fruit at 2-5 years.  My flowering quince appears to be right on schedule.  I wonder if it fruited before without me being aware.