Music Monday - Wick

Had a mild afternoon with no rain. This translated into a bout of cleaning the chicken coop and mutated into pruning the roses, plum and fig trees. Buds are apparent. There are tiny purple crocuses in my front yard. Our cool and rainy PNW spring is imminent. 

This time of year always reminds me of the musical version of The Secret Garden.

Makes me itch to spend more time digging in the dirt (and seeing what I can do to repair the havoc that Toby the-terror is wreaking on the gardens and lawn in the back yard with his exuberant and endless sessions of fetch).

Happy earliest of springs.

Music Monday - The Secret Garden

Given the awesome gardens I've been visiting of late (and all the time I'm spending in mine), I thought I'd post this Tony performance of the original cast of The Secret Garden -

I religiously listen to this soundtrack every spring, when I'm starting to wither a bit from garden-and-growing-things withdrawal...

"Come a mild day, come a warm rain,
Come a snowdrop, a-comin' up!"_

Yesterday, I posted photos from the herb garden portion of The Hermit's Grove. Today, I'm posting pics from the gorgeous back, wooded area of the property -

From the decorative -(the ornamented out-buildings...)

The low-walled stone circle...

(complete with a 'marble' floor. :-)

The fairy-house under the big-leaf maple...

Into the woods....

The huckleberries growing from cedar trunks...

...and trees growing on trees...

...tis a magical place, truly.

"And all through the darkest nighttime,
It's waiting for the right time.
When a thing is wick, it will grow!"