On Saturday I ate outside. It was another sunny day, and I think it was the warmest day this year so far: 13 degrees C!
I worked a bit in the garden removing the dead leaves and pine needles on the path and in the garden. It was a mystery what the garden beds were for and if they were cultivated ever; I visited the house for the first time only in December…
Armed with a rake, I worked out slowly outside. Sometimes the layers were multiple, the leaves beginning to compost already as they turned black and moist. Sometimes flavors like minth or thym came out flavoring the air. Several labels for flowers were lost in the soil, Unfortuntely I don’t think anything will blow from those spots anymore.
But as I was removing these pines and leaves I begun to find greens, and yellows, and whites… and germinated things growing up! A treasure hidden under the organic matter from the fall… Good that I released them before the last snow of the year – well, hopefully the last one: again a thin white cotton layer of snow woke me up this morning….
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