Every Saturday I make a trip into the big city to take our daughter to rehearsal for the youth symphony. This weekend she also has a piano theory exam to take at a local college. I’m waiting for her now. I spend a lot of time driving and waiting for my kids at various activities these days. It’s one of the reasons I decided to start blogging. Recording aspects of our country life provides me with an outlet while I wait at practices, rehearsals and lessons in my crazy and chaotic modern life.
Today is a dreary and rainy winter day in Minnesota and it definitely doesn’t feel like January. Instead, it feels more like April with its snow-melting spring rains and I’m daydreaming about spring and my gardens. I’ve started noticing the gardening magazines in the grocery store check-out line. Although they call out to me as I stand in line, I have resisted purchasing any so far. The seed catalogs have also started to arrive in the mail and I peruse them with grand ideas of all the different vegetable varieties I am going to try this year.
My real gardening passion is flowers. As each growing season comes to an end, I contemplate all the things that I will grow “next year” in my flower gardens. On this rainy day, looking at random pictures of my flowers cheers me up and inspires me for the upcoming growing season….even if it is months away.
William Baffin climbing rose and Jackmanii Clematis
Zinnias and Bachelor Buttons
Hollyhock
Johnson's Blue Geranium
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