Journal Prompt - Dismal

I've been avoiding doing this prompt! Who wants to think of dismal things? In fact I'm not quite sure what the people who wrote the prompts were thinking of -- "How dismal is this?"
The only thing that is dismal around here would be the weather. And actually it's not all that dismal; it was a beautiful sunny day today. But it has been cold; so cold in fact that we've been covering a couple of our plants during the night this week. The Nanny Berry bush/tree & the Mountain Laurel, both were newly planted last summer and both are getting ready to blossom for the first time. My poppies are a little wilty looking, hoping that some warm weather the next few days. Also worried about the tree lilies.
Here's Jillian standing by the Nanny Berry tree last week . . .

Still trying to figure out why in the world I would want to dwell on dismal things! So, I'm going to remain positive and not do it! Tomorrows prompt is so much better! :)