Sunday, May 22

There Will Be Mud ...

The predicted rain yesterday fell late, so there was plenty of time for more planting in the misty morning.

The warehouse/storage locker is gettting less and less crowded, and my trailer lighter each time I pull it by hand out the door into the sunny field.

The church plots are assigned, and the Romas have always done well in the direct sun there. But the loamy soil in the community garden residential plots, one of which gets partial shade from a nearby stand of trees, has already absorbed the majority of cabbages, broccoli, lettuce and celery plants. Succulents, another gardener calls them.

So nice being outdoors with something to do, particularly satisfying when the rains came later to water in my work, and the lightning show began just an hour ago.

One month left of Spring, and it's the best month of the season, in spite of the mud.