Posted in Seasons, The Garden, tagged time, Winter garden on December 5, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Winter hangs on still green leaves. The autumn lingered this year, and the winter, though timely, blew in on the unsuspecting.
Fluffed flakes swirl from snow bands pushing through overhead. Autumn has fled.
Winter holds the deep past and the future. Those plants holding leaves are slowly freezing.
It is me that was unsuspecting.
Posted in Nature, The Garden, tagged Snow, Winter garden on January 1, 2016| Leave a Comment »
A blanket lies over the garden, crusty white.
What remains standing, in glorious decline, is known as the winter garden. But I know better.
Beneath the snow, in the ground, microbe and mulch, root and rot, the crowns of spring sleep.
Protected from upheaval, they shelter. Gathering, to push forth when light lingers longer.
Real strength rests below, embroidered with the deceit of decay above. Winter garden.
Shouldn't...but Do 