According to Weatherbug.com, the temperature is 55.3 degrees this morning! This is wonderful. The day is starting off to be as lovely as yesterday, and that was, weatherwise, an unbeatable, cool, sunny day. The marvelous thing is this isn’t April nor October, but July.
Yesterday was a perfect day to work outside, so I did. My herb garden is now pretty free of weeds and the roses can be seen on their trellis. I put some new herbs in the ground: dill, lavender, and basil. It is impossible for me to be gloomy when I’m on my knees on the ground with the fragrance of herbs all around me. I like the way they all smell, but basil, to me, is the one whose scent reminds me of warmth and growth and hope.
Of course, the front yard by the sidewalk isn’t so beautiful right now because a mountain of limbs waits for the city pick-up. Beside them are a few other items that need to find another place to live, as they aren’t used around my house any more. It would be a good time to clean out the garage.
Bermuda grass remains a mystery. I can pull it forcefully from the ground, roots and all, and two days later, it’s back, poking its tenacious green blades through the earth, getting chummy with the flowers and shrubs. How does it do that? Maybe it has a secret network whose sole purpose is to populate the earth with bermuda grass. If that is so, it is doing a good job of it. I don’t like using an herbicide because that destroys butterflies, bees, dragonflies and ladybugs. There’s already a shortage of beneficial insects, especially honeybees. And, if a bird eats a bug that eats a grass blade soaked in poison, well, I fear for the future of birdlife.
So, it’s off into a wonderful Wednesday. The sky is blue, the sun is shining, the temperature is downright chilly and there’s a feeling in the air that blesses my soul. And, maybe Nettie Duncan McNeal will figure a way out of her present dillemma in Moonlight Can Be Murder. If she does, I’ll certainly interrupt my outdoor chores, hurry to my computer, and record what she whispers in my ear.
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