Welcome, Morning
| After one of the wettest March's in years, Chicago area gardeners are
antsy to get out there, to churn up that earthy aroma of the soil. But
there is much to be learned in the garden simply by being still,
listening and observing. One elegant observation that I turn to each
spring is a passage in the 1876 book, "A Year in the Fields" written
by the American naturalist John Burroughs: "Spring is the inspiration,
fall the expiration. Both seasons have their equinoxes, both their
filmy, hazy air, their ruddy forest tints, their cold rains, their
drenching fogs, their mystic moons; both have the same solar light and
warmth, the same rays of the sun; yet, after all, how different the
feelings they inspire! One is morning, the other the evening; one is
youth, the other is age." —Nina Koziol |  |
 Photos: Nina Koziol | |
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