Almost March

Spring is here! I find it nearly impossible to stay in the house when the birds are singing, and the hummingbirds are collecting spider webs to make nests. The flowers are beginning to open. The ground is so wet that as I traipse around the yard, I go through shoes because they are sopping wet. I should be wearing my rubber boots. Its a lovely time of year. 

My one finish of February. It should have only took me a week or so and it took the whole month. But its finished now. I worked a tiny bit on my turkey rug yesterday. It was the first time I picked up a hook in almost six weeks. 

Our oldest son Ben came home from North Carolina. We were celebrating the home going of my nephew, his cousin. He drove from there. He left from his house on a Tuesday and got here on Friday. Then drove back home last Monday and got back to his house on Wednesday. Its about 4000 miles give or take. We had the kids who live here all together on Sunday. It ended up being a perfect day. Only our oldest daughter wasn't here. But it was a gift to me and Ron to have them all sitting in the back yard laughing and joking. To get to have dinner together, just the brief lovely visit. Life is so filled with bittersweet moments. " Through my deepest waters, hottest fires and darkest valleys God has taught me the deepest and the most eternal lessons."( Elisabeth Ellot) I guess for the time being I am in school again.

This is from my garden and my Cilantro which is going to seed. This silly plant went crazy this year. Its loved the fog and the cold. There is no way I could eat that much. Our Celery went crazy too. 

Those lovely big stalks. My daughter said that when celery goes to seed it looks like Queen Anne's Lace. I am half playing with that to see it go to seed. We have to drive a long way before we see that growing in the wild. 

I hope with it being March tomorrow. There will lots more time to do those things I love to do. I hope your spring begins to show its pretty head as the ground begins to warm up. I know I will fall for it. I do every year. Thinking winter is gone and spring is here to stay. Then March, who is very fickle will blow and be so cold.

"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and when wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade." (Charles Dickens, Great Expectations)

 

The little Japanese Maples are beginning to bloom. I have very slowly let my mind dream of gardens.

Very carefully, to dream of flowers and tomato plants, of food I would love to grow. Of, plans to make of summer and the wonders I feel when once again I have the energy to be creative. To find the joy in the gifts that come each day. To focus on what it looks like to have a whole field of dreams. "There is no month like March for making one believe in second changes."(Charles Dickens)

 

I hope your days are filled with blue skies, only occasional clouds and lots and lots of blessings.

~Kim~