A new Season

The first seed order arrived in the mail yesterday.  The new season has started, despite the snow and the predicted sub-zero temperatures coming this weekend.  The pristine seed packets represent the hopes and dreams for the 2016 garden.  At this point, there are no weeds and no diseases.  We are not suffering drought or deluges and the temperatures are always perfect.  No matter who wins the primary in New Hampshire today, the calendar will continue its inexorable march to the spring solstice and the first seedings.