leafette's Blog

Winter Wondering
Jan 8, 2008 | 6:04 AM PST
The view from the window behind this computer is very different.  We are house sitting and this farm is very isolated.  The driveway is long and winds beside a small river.  Trees line the banks.  The farm has a menagerie of animals.  Nice to look at but they have scratched, gnawed, and generally busted up much of the landscape.  The trees need pruning, the flower beds reclaiming and the animals confined to the  'other' side of the fence I'd put up.  But they are young, like I was once and perhaps when they  catch up on all the other projects they will have the time and inclination to make their own  mark on this lovely setting.   I DO have some ideas but I shall try to keep them to myself.  Perhaps it is a good thing that I can't get outside to prune, weed and generally straighten things up.  Ah, the biggest lesson I've learned in gardening is that the Garden of Eden needed dressers and keepers.  Too True!