I went strolling out for my morning garden tour with no particular mission in mind. But when I got to the potato patch I wondered… shall I water these sad looking plants--some yellowing, some clearly dead, others chipper and green and trying to thrive despite their want of regular watering--or shall I dig…
Bracing myself for disappointment I grabbed a hand rake and scritched at the surface of some of the withered lifeless vines…when what should appear but a lovely dusty potato!!! YIPEE!
I scritched and scratched some more, and more potatoes--whites ones and red ones, even one JUMBO one (there’s always one fellow that taps into the water just right and busts his buttons outgrowing the rest). And soon I was hunting down the pitchfork and digging deeper to turn up buried treasure.
Wonderful hot sweaty work it was in the morning sun. But I turned about a square yard of that bed and I have potatoes for many potato salads to come!
The moral of the story is, don’t judge a garden or a life by its surface. Fruit may not be visible but that doesn’t mean it’s not there. Dig a little. Get to know what’s beneath the surface of that foliage, that face, that lifestyle….You may be in for a surprise!
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In other news this week…
- We watched rampaging Redcoats (aka the RCMP Musical Ride)
- motored across the lake for a swim…
- beheld my Japanese Anemone in bloom (I love it! Thanks Nola!)
- Walked the neighborhood admiring neighbor’s dahlias
- and documented the wonder of being together…
for just a little longer…
while this bedazzlingly warm and dry summer fleets sweetly away…but not without notice!
--LS
“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven…” Eccl. 3:1
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