Spring

I'm hardly a carpenter, and it shows, but the gardening boxes are built. Now we just need to haul 20 cubic feet of compost, topsoil, peat moss, perlite, soda cans, sand, whatever, and fill the boxes, mutter about pH testing, then start planting. Except tomatoes, which will wait a few weeks--Last Frost for this area is supposed to be mid-April.

Meanwhile the Bradford pear trees are in bloom, dark gray trunks showing off the chalk and ivory blossoms. The water elms are starting to show leaves.