Once in a blue moon eastern
Kansas has a cool, rainy spring. In spite of a few days of early hot, dry
weather, our spring has changed its mind and is giving us cool days and
plentiful rain.
The rain has saved the
wheat crop, at least it has in Douglas County, and the fields of corn are shooting
up.
Similarly, in our garden,
tomato plants are three feet tall, there is an abundance of peas with more
blooms coming, and flowerbeds are exuberant, like this bed by our patio, where
an unexpected crop of blue and pink larkspur has superceded the iris. The thirty-year-old
pink clematis completes the color scheme in this edge-of-the-woods garden.
We consider this weather a
special blessing. Water is running in Chicken Creek below the house, the
kitchen garden is flourishing, birds are singing all day, and beauty is all
around us.
Copyright
2014 by Shirley Domer
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