1 When you think how easy and cheap,relatively ,it is to buy a bunch of carrots or beets ,why raise them?And root crops especially are hard to tell apart,when store bought,from our own.
2 But inevitably a morning arriveswhen,just as I am awakening,a scent waft through the window,something like earth-as-air,a scent that seems to come up from the very center of this planet.And the sun means business,suddenly,and has a different,deeper yellow in its beams on the carpet.The birds begin screaming hysterically,thinking what I am thinking--the worms are deliciously worming their way thtough the melting soil.
3 Keeping a garden makes you aware of how delicate,bountiful,and easily ruined the surface of this little planet is.
4 As it is,April is for getting irritated all over again at this plintless,time-consuming hobby.
5 Leave it to God to have picked the proper occupation for his only creature capable of such self-delusion.