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My Garden Story:
A Garden’s Tale: A Perspective On Life!
By Gillwho
EARLY SPRING:
The garden stirred slowly, it was quietly waking up after a long winter’s sleep. It could feel the snow receding and the warmth of the spring sun on its soil. The first signs of new growth were happening slowly just under the soil. Weeds and flowers were stirring, their roots pushing carefully through the still chilly underground. In a day or two, the first green tips of the stem and leaves would poke through the ground. “Ah”, thought the garden, another growing season will soon be under way. The humans that tended it would soon return. The garden missed them over the winter. It especially missed Sara; she understood the garden and its moods. Sara knew where and when to plant flowers and vegetables in the garden to get the best results. The garden wondered too, what Sara would look like this year. She had been very small the first time the garden had seen her, and she was full of delight as she smelled the flowers and tasted the vegetables. The first few years, a bigger human had helped her care for the garden. Then one spring she appeared alone and much taller. The garden heard her exclaim, “Mum, said I can start working in the garden by myself this year!” Sara had proved to be very skilled in tending the garden over the years, except the garden wished she didn’t pull up all the weeds! “How wasteful”, thought the garden.” She could be using those weeds to feed the other humans.”
Thinking of them reminded the garden of the other growing human, Garth. He was quite the opposite of Sara; he loved to tear through the garden, disturbing the peace and quite of the growing vegetation. When he was very little he would dig holes in the ground and fill them with water, then he would jump and splash around in the hole, spreading mud onto all the nearby leaves, ugh, the garden disliked having muddy leaves. Last year. Garth started hitting all the pretty flower heads with a stick! Fortunately, Sara generally chased him out of the flowerbeds. “Oh my”, thought the garden, “what will he do this year!”
“Well, that is something to deal with later”, thought the garden, as it turn its attention back to what was happening currently. It had felt the earth moving, the worms had awakened and were stretching their long thin bodies for the first time this spring. It felt good to the garden, and it relaxed, forgetting about the humans for the moment. As the worms turned the earth, the new roots from the vegetation were able to push further out and gather nutrients from the soil. Now, they were quickly able to produce steams and leaves, to grow quickly, in just a short amount of time now, the garden would be going from brown and bare to green and lush. Early spring was well under way!
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