I am sure I am not the only gardener who sits by the wood stove
looking at a seed catalog on long winter nights.
Turning colorful pages with photos of vegetables dancing
across the pages envisioning them in their future vegetable patch.
Thinking of sunny days planting seed and plants divining
a strategy to keep the slugs and robins at bay!
The mix of joy, pride, and anticipation while the days warm
as spring seems to race towards summer solstice.
The harvest comes in waves and is a measure of success
and failures that start to become evident.
Gardens are like life because we tend to share our triumphs
and quietly move on from our defeats with lessons learned.
So when the seed order shows up it invokes some emotions
from joy and giddiness to OMG what was I thinking,
but always is a mid- winter salvation giving one a sense of hope.



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