Frustrated Gardener

It's kind of cruel that the seed companies proffer their bounty by sending out catalogues in December and encouraging us gardeners to order our seeds in January, thus fooling ourselves that gardening season is almost here.

I got both of my seed orders in the mail today... but the garden is covered by 18" of snow and the temperature is 14 degrees (which frankly, is a heat wave for this week).

My home is too dry and cold for starting seedlings, so I don't even get to prepare for that activity. Instead, I just get to sort through my little packets and page through the catalogues some more.

To further stimulate my longing for workable soil, I put this picture of Abbey settin' by the 'maters in Perkins in July on the desktop of my Mac.