free skies, glad, strong

February 4, 2010 | Filed Under inspired, ordinary 

something about february, gray and colorless, a month of endless rain and more cold than one would think such a puny little month could produce. today i saw flour pots, new rakes in shining lines and rows at the store. seeds in packages as long as a row can go. i was tempted, tried, (but did not fail as i sometimes do), for i will order from catalogs and plant in cups i’ve made myself. no over-priced big-box store seeds for me this year. i felt a sort of hope that i don’t usually find in february today, clay pots in rows organized by size, trowels, flowered gardening gloves, stakes for plants, garden hoses in stacks of yellow, black, green coils. hope that remained even when it snowed a bit of slush this afternoon, even when the forecast called for a cold, cold rain all day tomorrow, winter in droplets and gray for miles far, even then.

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