"Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the
close of a winter day."~Elizabeth Bowen
I am so ready
for spring. So ready. Yesterday a sign as a flock of sandhill
cranes flew over head with their unmistakable call. I ran to the door, to step out onto the
porch, looked up to see their formation overhead against a clear blue sky. My heart sang.
I look out the
window now at a clear day…and oh so much brown and grey yet. The landscaping this year is going to be a
challenge, and a chore. There is so much
to do! I am excited by it and feeling slightly overwhelmed. I did my usual January/February perusal of
some gardening sites, made a list of plants, thought about pots and
planters. Walked around the yard to
begin a list of the areas to concentrate…can I just put down “four sides of the
house”?
We just
returned from a short vacation, business related, to Jamaica. To see bright colors, hear moving
water…glorious. Inspiring even and that
may be why I am feeling it so much today…that itch to get outside and get
started. I hold myself back on these “Fooled
ya!” early springlike days to keep from digging into the dirt but oh, I plan.
I hope to
surround the house in color this year.
There will be loads of dirt and rock to contend with but also plants and
flowers. I am starting completely over
in the moon garden area as the soil there needs a bit more help, and well, we’ve
lost a couple trees over the winter which is going to change the sunlight and I hope
will give me a couple more options for planting. This
area is really important to me, however, so its made its way back to number one, may two, on my list. I’m also going
to be using a “dry creek bed” design for one of the downspout areas and have,
oh maybe 50 pictures saved on Pinterest.
Hubs keeps reminding me he has to drive the lawn tractor through this
area so not to get carried away.
Late winter
always brings yard clean-up as the first activity..sticks, sticks and more
sticks. The deer have been active in our
yard this winter and leave their proof everywhere. Raking, burning and more sticks. Hubs and I started the perusal of the yard,
the listing of the many projects we still have yet to finish and even had to
call in a downed tree on the power lines yesterday. More wood to cut up. On top of the more routine annual projects we
still have the deck railing and stairs to build. 2018 is going to busy it
seems! But, yet, it was gentle and warm enough before the sun went down last evening for us to sit down by the lake, watch the full moon rise and look out to a single, playful loon. Nice to slow it down, 2018. Nice.
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