The origami butterflies I made a few weeks back are starting to fall off my dining room window. The rainbow I made with them cheers me so I keep sticking them back up.
I had to take the origami tulips off our living room window to let the sunshine in on pots of seedlings we started in celebration of Earth Day. So many passerby's have smiled and pointed at our cheerful window decorations that I felt a little sad ripping them off. I guess I could have pretended I was picking myself a bouquet.
Oh well about the window. But hooray about the seedlings!
Never having started our seeds indoors before, wonderfully several lettuces and kale have sprung up from the soil and earth worm castings. And all from a gift of seeds* my sweet sister Janice sent to me.
Soon mail box goers in front of our house will wave at us while we are out front planting and we will wave back and say hi and it will feel sort of normal.
This week saw the return of honey bees and butterflies to our garden which was delightfully usual for this time of year. Today it was the cabbage white butterfly we celebrated. Who knows what wonderful creatures will be around as things warm up this week.
Hover fly anyone?
Today's poem is by me--again. Two tankas:
Origami, Butterfly and Poplar
Tall and slender--green
eyed Poplar, shimmering in
summer heat. The wind
through you sounds of one thousand
hands; sure, swift, folding paper.
I listen and dream
of sitting again with you
beneath a Poplar
stand. A butterfly splays wings,
takes flight. I remain longing.
Jill MacCormack
*Another dear sister, Janeen, and my eldest daughter Maria are conspiring to see where and how we can get our hands on PEI adapted seeds and how to still support our lovely, local seedling growers in this unusual spring for gardeners.
Wishing you good cheer.
Jill
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