The sun has been lovely here in Bellingham over the last few days. It is Apple Blossom time! I have two apple trees. One is almost thirty years old and only three feet high. Back when I first arrived in Bellingham, I took a Master Gardener’s class in which I grafted an English apple, Cox’s Orange Pippin, onto a dwarf rootstock. Some years I have had over 40 apples on my little tree. My other apple is a Columnar, which is almost as old, and has survived at least one move. It also produces and keeps well. At the end of the year, I usually have a drawer in my refrigerator full of apples.
I love feeling the warm sun on my back as I work in the garden at this time of the year. I now have to be ultra-careful and cover my face with sunscreen. Because I spend at least a few hours every day in the garden, I can easily control most weeds and unwanted bugs; the moles, unfortunately, not so much, but the good thing is now the sun is warming, they will hopefully go deeper and not bother my garden. In the next week, I plan to finish cutting off the Hellebore seed pods; I already have too many Hellebores in my garden, but I love their cheery faces when the weather is not so happy.
I am excited about tomorrow because The Blue Bottles Writing Studio group is meeting again. I am looking forward to what the individuals in the group have produced for the project Found Poetry. Different cultures, different ages, what will they choose? Our ongoing writing prompt about Childhood finishes tomorrow with the title: Becoming a Teen.
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