Thank you, Janie. We are looking at things in that very way, though Truelove is better at it than I am. We worked together in the house today, except for a couple of hours I spent in the greenhouse planting hanging baskets, mixing a fresh lot of potting soil, and preparing seed flats.

I walked out to the garden in the rain, smelling lilacs and iris as I walked. The fresh green pea sprouts were rising up into the silver light and soft rain like tendrils of living green silk.

maeve