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| The snow has melted and we raked and cleared the front flower garden. |
After a long cold winter, today I got some dirt under my finger nails. While my backyard is still covered in snow, the sun has melted about half of the front, exposing one of my flower gardens. I raked away some pine needles leftover from fall and started to pull out some of the dried weeds. There was the oregano, still green. Paddy tore off a leaf and tasted and I followed suit. We both got on our hands and knees crawling as close as we could to the dirt. There was the raspberry vine; we'll move that to a better spot this weekend. We found a tiny silvery leaf of sage, on a thin-legged stem, poking out. With the sun on our backs, we worked our way around the small garden, picking and pulling and noticing. After some time, we got up and picked up branches and twigs shed by the scrub pines in the front and carried them to the fire pit in the back to be dried out in the sun; this weekend we'll make a fire.
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| Below the PVC pipes the snow is shoveled and the ground is thawing. Soon, I'll plant the snow peas. |
Then we dug the ice and snow from the top of the compost pile, finding that the dirt below was soft and easy to dig into. A few feet away, we scraped out a line of snow where we'll plant our peas as soon as the ground thaws. We kept on this way until our feet were too cold and we returned inside, with muddy hands and knees.
