so over it!

 Check out that garden! A friend sent me this pic recently. This was back in Athens, Il., @1976. Victory garden! Organic! I was so into it. And continued to be when we bought the Block Island property in 1980, branching out from vegetables into flowers and hydrangeas. Gardening by the sea, however, proved to be challenging, with the wind and the salt, not to mention the deer and snapping turtles (I know they are not supposed to eat plants, but I swear to the goddess). Then, what with not being in Block Island to tend a garden during the summer, not being in Missouri early enough to plant and late enough to harvest, I kinda quit. Then there was laziness—I no longer sew my own paisley clothing or crochet or knit or embroider either. Now I content myself with planting a couple magic beans in my pots in the kitchen window and paying guys to mow.