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I eat apple sauce as part of my meals at work. It comes in small plastic cups that I use every spring to start my indoor seeds to plant when there is no longer a threat of frost outdoors. this year I have started my patio tomatoes(6 cups), yellow straight neck summer squash(several), and the green variety of zucchinis. The tomatoes are up and having to be turned each day as they reach for the sunlight through the window. The squash only went in this week so they need a bit more time to sprout. I need to get some eggplant seeds to start this week too. Oh I do enjoy my gardening and this year feels early in its land use capabilities. Mmmmmmm! I love my garden and eating all the freshness it produces. I ate out of it right up into November last year. I get fresh green beans, wax beans, tomatoes, spinach, carrots, edible pod peas, two kinds of raspberries, blueberries, and red currants to beat the band. Browsing is one of my favorite pastimes when the garden is in. I can still see Mommy in her silk bathrobe out in the garden in early mornings picking her breakfast fruits and snatching a pea pod or two on the way back into the house.
What kind of gardening do you do? I wonder.

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I have gone to Squire's Castle recently. It is a park portion to Strawberry Lane of the Metro Parks System. There in the sunlit chill of March, I observe a young beaver in the rain swolllen pond foraging: no frolicking, in his engorged domain. On the far side are two one year old, I surmise, great blue herons figuring each other out while working distractedly on a nest. Below me about sixteen feet, where the shoreline begins downhill from my observation post, are two malards who mate for life. They see me, and squawking, they flutter their wings while making waves dragging their webbed feet. They are scurrying away from the fright of seeing me seeing them. Though it be cold, though I be chilled in a perfectly sunlit afternoon, I am warm inside with the joy of this free nature. I am astonished. I wish you all could be here to share it with me. Bring hot chocolate when you come.

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