The Gardening Bug

What's the big hurry, you

ask, why the panic, since

there's always tomorrow,

lots of them, no need to

busy yourself at breakneck

speed to get it all done

in one fell swoop.  Ah, yes,

true enough, but only

someone not infused with a

gardener's passion would

utter these comments.  For,

you see, reasonableness has

nothing whatever to do with

the irresistibility of gardening.

No panic, you see, none 

at all. But the exhilaration of

finally nature and climate 

willing to indulge, oh yes, 

indulge in the joy of flirting 

with the process whereby 

nature herself, and only herself, 

creates spontaneously,

effortlessly, wonderfully.

Gardeners are mere pretenders,

dilettantes,  hopeful aspirants,

but what fun, what challenges,

what exquisite rewards!