Saturday, May 21, 2011

a song

Spring winds are blowing, blossoms are growing, dancing like children, out on the green...

Don’t mind me. Just go about your business. I have to do this – it is the peak of the spring blooming season – I must take note of it here, on Ocean.


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I meet my younger girl at the farmers’ market. We always meet right here, by the L’Etoile (these days Graze) food cart.


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She’s up north for the week-end; indeed, she’ll be my first overnight guest at the farmhouse. And I clean in preparation for this, as if the farmhouse needed cleaning, as if I didn’t make fun of my grandmother for cleaning in preparation for our visits many years ago.


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We walk the market, drinking in the lilacs, the lilies of the valley, all of it and no, I do not need to buy flowers – I have plenty back at the farmette, but my favorite vendors are showing off blooms proudly, inexpensively and so I sample some of theirs, to compare, to enrich what is at home.


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At home. Ed and I are tackling issues in the garden. Ant hills in flower beds. Weeds, always the weeds. The horribly invasive bramble that crawls underground, looking for a place to poke through. Ed is dumping shredded bark (free, from Madison; thank you Madison!) in great amounts in any number of places. I dig, plant, pull out – all of it, until it’s time for supper.


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At the farmhouse, I am honoring the spring trilogy – the flowers that are such a gift now, a heady mix of – yes, of course, lilac, and (from our yard) lilies of the valley. Childhood pals of mine, now again growing under my nose. And tulips. Don’t forget the tulips.


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Together at last.


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Okay, done posting about May flowers. Tomorrow, I’ll try to look beyond the garden. It’ll be hard.


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6 comments:

  1. Living at the farmhouse suits you, Nina. There's a tone in your writing that I only used to hear when you were setting off for somewhere other than home.

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  2. Golden West -- it's true, there is something about the place that stirs up the senses... And childhood memories.

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  3. Nina,the pictures are beautiful. Up here in Alberta, I am hoping that I can plant by the end of next week. I envy your weather, and also your special gardening talents. Keep the pictures coming!

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  4. Kerry -- Madison, Wisconsin is about as far north as I'll go and not feel seriously deprived of solid growing time. Spring came a little late this year, but when it hits, it really is splendid.

    (I could do without the summer bugs.)

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  5. The farmhouse, and the farms around it, are beautiful! How I miss lilacs and the glorious springs in the north. (However, I do not miss the winters one little bit.)

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  6. I love all the colors (what beautiful flowers) and the peacefulness radiating from the photos and words.

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