Snow Gardens

Today was absolutely beautiful here in upstate New York. Clear blue skies, clean snow, bright & cheerful sunshine. There WAS one minor drawback - the high temp was 4 degrees F. and the wind was strong. Having had frostbite (my earlobes) once in my lifetime, I am not in any hurry to re-experience the pain. As I recall, that day when I came in from the cold with frozen lobes I (like the bright cookie I am) got out the first aid book for instructions. The main course of action was to immerse the frozen "part" in lukewarm water. Do you have any idea how hard it is to immerse both earlobes in a sink of water at the same time without drowning?! After all, who wants to choose between keeping your right lobe or your left lobe? You can dwell on that one for a bit.

Anyway, my thoughts today turned to gardening and I completed my seed order to put in the mail. (I know, you thought I did it when I was a couch potato, but I didn't.) A friend sent the ornament I thought you might enjoy seeing. Unfortunately, the light was wrong so I couldn't get a clear picture of it and the snow today (photo right) so I included another from December. The poem by Joseph Joubert on the ornament says... "Gardeners live in the most beautiful places... because they make them that way." At least our dreams for our gardens this time of year are beautiful.