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| Frost-covered potentilla leaves. |
Across a land still fast asleep
And leaves footprints so brightly green
To let us know where it has been.
Frost encrusted green
In morning stillness...
Until the sun stretches out
It fingers...
Radishes, almost ready to pull.
Baby spinach.
Crocus...
Daffodils...
Even tulip leaves...
Winter aconite in bloom!
Blue flax leaves.
Moss in the shade of a cedar tree.
Bees returning with full pollen bags.
Tiny elder leaves.
Chickweed creeping...
Wild garlic in the woods...
And branches filled with swelling buds and busy chickadees.
4 comments:
I enjoy reading your columns and now your blog as well. It's nice getting photos to go along with your words. I am a big fan of "The Apple Grower", too, and I wanted to recommend "The Holistic Orchard" by the same author. It is even better in my opinion and covers all sorts of fruit in the garden. We're starting our orchard this spring and I'm very inspired.
A fellow Jackson Countian :)
Thanks so much for your kind words. We recently got a copy of "The Holistic Orchard." My husband is reading it and frequently reads passages out loud to me. It is a wonderful resource. Good luck with your orchard.
You take such interesting photos! Everything is budding out here in Texas, too. I hope we don't get a late freeze and damage the buds. Today, I'm having a salad from my kitchen garden. I know it will be delicious because it is not "store bought".
Thanks, Meggie. Yes, late freezes always are a concern. Everything green and budding here now can take temps into the 20s. A few years back, though, we had a low of 15 or lower on the first weekend of April. Needles to say, very little fruit was produced locally that year, except for the elderberries, which don't flower until June.
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