Winter weary, so on the first warm day of March.............

[Couchwood, southwest flower bed detail, PL]

 

3/10/14

 

first warm March day

into daylight savings time

taking the plants outside

~~

 

Only

minutes after

I take the plants outside,

a breeze drifts in, as if to say

Too soon!

~~

 

first warm March day

after the brutal winter

I rake leaves, pull vines

  (vinca and ivy) twisting

   twining among spring bulbs

~~

 

warm March afternoon

pruning gardenias,

lorapetalum

   leaves that sustained winter burn

   oak leaves served as mulch

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3/12/14

 

Mother

Nature, you rule!

My mother, you were right!

Don't put the house plants out until

April!

~~

 

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