Tending the Row

This is a dirty business. No training yet today as my morning has been spent in the garden. Fresh spinach and collards abound there, but they must be harvested, cleaned, and the ground prepared to plant their replacement. There is something of a connection working in and with the soil. That rich fertile soil just looks like dirt but it is growth potential waiting for the seed.

Maybe I don't look like much either, but I like to think that I have that growth potential too; that I might take the seed and grow it to fruitful harvest. If I tend my garden well, it will produce a variety and abundance of healthy foods.

Time to eat a fresh spinach salad, then put on my running shoes, go for a run, and tend this row in my garden.

"The Axe is Laid Unto the Root of the Tree--"

Dug it up, cut out the roots, pulled to fall in a safe place. That tree in the front yard was rotten at the center and leaning to fall eventually into an area causing damage.

Some things in life have been like that. Left undug,stumps of bad habits, attitudes, and negative propensities can sprout into a life again. Some things need to be dug up and cut off at the roots before they fall upon our life to cause damage.

The tree left a sizeable hole so a cold frame was built in and over it: a place to start fresh young seedlings for the garden to encourage new life that will bear fruit in due season.