May has been a good month for gardeners

When it came, it came all at once. Spring, I'm talking about. I've seen it happen like that in New York, the tulips on Fifth Avenue in bud at the beginning of the week, dropping their petals in a heat wave at the end. But over here, it's usually more gradual. We seem to have been waiting forever for the trees to leaf up, for the grass to get greener, for the plants to have the courage to grow again. And finally it's happened. Hallelujah!







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