Starting Over

High summer is here and I’m back in the garden.

Pulling weeds, wrestling with grapevine, and rescuing an azalea. Weeds and invasives are amazing – they take over everything in their path and leave nothing untouched. They choke, they cover, they spread. And the only way to deal with them is to get them at their roots and not to just trim them back. This simply leaves them an invitation to return. And yet, even getting them at the roots sometimes does not work. It takes a lot of planning. And sometimes you just have to start over.

Feels a lot like everything else going on right now…