It was such a beautiful day today. I fired up the bbq and played with Memphis out in the yard while dinner cooked. The back yard is still a bit soggy. I started to imagine some of the things I’m going to do to enhance the garden this year. That will include some changes to the gardens I started last year and perhaps a new large garden in the back.

There is a wooded area behind what semblance of a lawn we have. I’ve gone back and forth between just leaving it be and doing some strategic work back there, cleaning up some things, planting a few others. I enjoy the disorder back there. It seems very cottage-like. Memphis and the cats enjoy running around back there too.

This spring we’re going to start working on a significant garden in the front yard, displacing some of the lawn. I’d like to bring in some large rocks to give the new garden some bones. I have a shape in mind but I haven’t drawn it out yet. The beauty of starting a new garden is that it changes through the years. Mistakes disappear or get moved. New ideas get tossed into the mix. Eventually the whole business starts to assert itself as a garden. One of the things I love about gardening is seeing each year how the garden reestablishes itself, how it evolves and matures.