MARCH ETERNAL - Part 2

then there's the personal world.  in chaos and disarray somehow, the sunporch full of plants that want to get out of their pots into bigger ones, piles of books and papers and catalogs everywhere i look, the urge to burn it all down.  the yard:  where do i begin?  we've had a couple of sundays with the seductive smell and feel of spring, and we've worked out there, beginning the heroic, overwhelming cleanup of last year's garden/yard debris.  the vegetable/herb garden already has a sturdy crop of weeds, although nothing else.  i keep saying "time to plant some lettuce" but i haven't done it yet.

sunflowerkat has a two-part entry about her MO of gardening/yard work that shows me i'm not alone.  her style and mine are identical, down to her refusal to use chemicals in the yard.  and listen kat, about those dandelions, many bird species love them.  since the day (when we lived on Cape Cod) i found a flock of indigo buntings snacking away on the dandelion seedheads, i've felt different about them.  think of them as part of your backyard wildlife environment.  and it's that wildlife environment that, for me, makes up for the lack of suburban chemical tidiness.  a yard full of birds, rabbits, butterflies, damsel and dragonflies, even squirrels, on a july day is worth the weeds.  most of the time.  yeah, by august i've given up in despair and have to fight my way through the jungle to get the tomatoes and cukes, but by august in DE nothing really matters.  another hard month, when all that exists is heat and humidity and the company that keeps coming because we live near the beach.