To The Bone

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Seeds of Life

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Contemplating a Garden in the Depths of Winter

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Feb 18, 2025
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My front yard under snow.

As I write this, a blindingly cold winter sun fills my office with a light that does not warm. Outside it’s two degrees. Tomorrow morning it will be -20. Six inches of snow covers the world.

I look out my window and see my raised beds entombed in snow, the little metal anti-rabbit cages buried and askew like the Statue of Liberty at the end of the movie …

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