“The best fertilizer is the gardener’s shadow.”
– Unknown Author

“Correction: second-best fertilizer.”
– Mykleblakka

“Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation,” wrote Karel Capek in The Gardener’s Year. “It is an insatiable passion.” And never more so than in the springtime, when we water the garden with our sweat.

It's early in the year, but the gardens are blooming.

Forsythias guard the lake.