New Year

[farla]

It's rainy out right now, drizzly with cold mist in the air. Neither the weather nor temperature are much of an auspicious start for the year. The conversation with Dad just now, discussing methane, wasn't much better. I'm getting involved in another project I'll probably regret.

Still, I feel hopeful. Or competent, like I can deal with things. I'm learning more about gardening each year, and it looks like my plants pulled through after all. Bird/squirrel feeders are up. My cat is alive and loves me, and if I'm starting another project, at least I'm finishing up one too. Even if I am the only one, I'm glad I can see things and interpret information and put it all together in new ways.

If my bittersweet grow, I'm going to collect the seeds. I'll carry them with my on walks and plant them here and there. Five or six or seven years, the trees will begin fruiting and the squirrels will steal the fruit and hide chunks in shaded crevices where it will sprout. The grass of the lawn is half dead but the flowers are expanding. The ground is covered with new plants where the seed fell. I found an alpine strawberry growing where I didn't plant it.

Maybe, in ten years, chestnut trees will be able to come back. Do you understand how wonderful that is?

Comments

[cherry-ola.livejournal.com]

Yay! ^^ Enough with the lopping and butchery.

[farla.livejournal.com]

Um, okay.