Journal | March 3, 2025
Spring Awakening
Pruning is in full swing. For the next month we will quietly be working the vines. The only sounds we generate are the snip of pruning shears and the reverberations of canes being pulled from trellis wires. This calm lets us witness winter ceding to spring.
Sounds are amplified. Migrating Canada Geese can be heard from miles away and sound like an invasion as they fly overhead. Turkeys are just starting gobbler season. Maniacal Red Shoulder Hawks will soon be screeching incessantly.
Tiny yellow and purple flowers emerge from the ground cover brush left from last year. The first odorous smell of wild garlic is pleasant and reassuring.
The sun is low and weak in the early morning, but by late morning we start to peel off layers. At lunchtime the coveralls, vests and jackets hanging randomly on trellis posts are collected. They will be called back into service by late afternoon when the sun recedes.
Every day we get to feel spring emerge. Nothing is in our ear. No phone is our palm. No screen competing for attention.
This is why we love to prune.
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