01.24.2024 | Ordinary Wednesday

It's still dark outside in the Carondelet Garden on this Ordinary Wednesday in late January.  We should see highs in the low 50s again today.  We have a dense fog advisory this morning and clouds will continue to fill the skies this afternoon.

It felt downright balmy yesterday as we returned to the garden and restarted working in the old Red Clover ground cover.   As I turned my face up to the sky, I could almost feel the earth trembling into new possibilities.  The garden is reminding me that this is what it does best.  Renewal of life.  The new life that will come from the dying back of the old.  The nutrients of the rotting Red Clover will provide nourishment for the coming Spring vegetables.  The greenness that rises out of the decay.  

All endings are also beginning.  This is something I have to remind myself over and over again.  The garden is here to remind me that beauty and nature will always take my breath away.  

As Mary Oliver said so well, "To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work."  That's all the news from here in the Carondelet Garden.