An Iowa Garden

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We have been given a brief reprieve from this morass of cold and cloudiness that we've found ourselves stuck in this spring... brief because we are to have only two days of sun, then snow and cold are to return. Gardeners being by nature a hardy and wildly optimistic bunch, we will take the few crumbs of sunlight that have fallen from spring's bountiful table, and be grateful for it. The honeybees certainly have no complaints today, their pollen sacs already heavy with bright yellow and orange granules from the early crocuses and snowdrops. A faint hum fills the garden, as they buzz from flower to flower, and the sweet honey smell of snowdrops blooming in the warm sunshine is like whipped cream on my cocoa... I am a happy gardener today.


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