04.11.2025 | Friday in Lent

It's dark and cloudy with a slight mist in the air this morning in the Carondelet Garden.  The clouds will be hanging around all day.  The highs should reach into the mid 50s by late this afternoon.  Not a bad way to finish off the week.

As I'm getting older and, admittedly, slower I've abandoned the need to get things accomplished by someone else's timetable.  Instead, I plunge in, headfirst, into a completely different time, an immense and inexorable time completely out of my control, defined by weather, my old knees and hips, and, above all, the seasons.

April is the month of SLOW GARDENING.  A time to chill out, relax, and observe.  I've come to realize that the point of gardening is the doing of it, not the having got it done.  Slow down and enjoy!  

It's the end of the week.  Be good and be kind to yourself this Friday in April.  That's all the news from here in the Carondelet Garden.