Warming days and seed catalogs

Our days of freezing weather is over and today it was warm enough to sit by the pool and watch the breezes blow the pool toys around. One can get fixated on the toys escaping traps as they float on the current of circulating circles of water across the length of the pool. A breeze will often nudge a toy out of the lanes of water circles and cause a log jam, then eventually another breeze will blow it out of the trap into the water circles again.

While I ate lunch by the pool, spotty rain clouds began to out number the few spotty white clouds indicating our days of spring rains are due. This is the time of year I begin thinking of seed catalogs and imaging bountiful harvests of tomatoes and cucumbers. These imaginary harvests never develop into what I call bountiful. Considering the amount of labor and the cost of watering the plants, the effort is hardly worth it considering one can buy beautiful tomatoes grown in a professional greenhouse for pennies. I'll wait until after the rains to decide if its worth the effort.