Thursday, December 01, 2005
Iowa Winter
We awoke to 5 inches of fluffy, pristine snow this morning, with a sun and sky so blindingly bright, that sunglasses were needed to go out and shovel the walkways, and to finish a few little garden chores, and bid the gardening season adieu. The pond has a thin covering of ice, perhaps the earliest that it has frozen over in many years; I say perhaps, as I always mean to keep track of this fact, but never do... I'm not sure what purpose it would serve, other than to confirm my suspicions that a particular winter is exceptionally unbearable. I used to keep an extensive written garden journal, which I've not looked at for many years. It may be jam-packed with insightful and humorous garden anecdotes, or perhaps not; I would hate to dig it out of the closet only to find day after day, of whining about the temperature and lack of rainfall. I guess I'll leave it packed away. 
// posted by IBOY @ 12:27 PM 
