Lesson One:
The weeds come back first.
Don’t be discouraged. Start weeding. Keep waiting.
And, especially, keep your eyes open.
Lesson Two:
Even your least-favorite colors are beautiful after a long winter. Neon-yellow forsythia, I’m looking at you.
Lesson Three:
After a long winter spent with books, it takes time to reacquaint yourself with the world outside your door. Like the two-year-old, you may at first mistake a bumble bee for a “porcupine.”
Lesson Four:
Don’t put off till tomorrow the cleanup you can do today. Especially because, tomorrow, all those brush piles will be edged with poison ivy.
Lesson Five:
The garden asks you to do and be. It is important to cut back all the hydrangeas that bloom on new wood, but it is just as important to sit in a green patch memorizing the stripes on a purple crocus.
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What’s growing in your bit of earth?
(P.S. These springtime photos were taken by my sister, Kelli Campbell, last year. If you’d like to keep up with the spring just beginning at Maplehurst, you can find my own images on Instagram.)
Believe it or not, we are finding that there are very subtle changes of season here. It feels like spring and things that I forgot had blooms are beginning to bloom. The air feels different, the sun warmer. My plumeria has opened a single branch of the most incredible pink blooms- pink! I was so hoping for pink.
Pink. Of course, it would be pink. So happy for you, Kelli.
Thanks for the instructions, Christie 🙂 This is a great post with great pictures. Spring is creeping here as well, like a miracle. I hope to see your farm some day!
Exactly. Just like a miracle. Can’t wait to have you here for a visit someday!
The bit about the bee and porcupine made me laugh out loud. Love this. I need a reminder to just be.
Right?! I’m still laughing over that one. Two-year-olds are just the best.