Warmer days ahead!

[Ellie]

For those of us not lucky enough to be in CVO----
Thought these poems from my 'Book of Days' entitled "Medieval Gardens"---would help us think of warmer days ahead
This January,so noble,and so old,
Found walking in it such felicity
That no one was allowed to have the key
Except himself,and for its little wicket
he had a silver latch-key to unclick it
Or lock it up,and when his thought was set
upon the need to pay his wife her debt
in Summer season,thither he would go
With May his wife when there was none to know,
And anything,they had not done in bed
There in the garden was performed instead

Geoffrey Chaucer ---The Canterbury Tales

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Around the coping of these wells
And beside streams,above all else
The grass sprang up,so soft,thick set,
Quite as fine as any velvet
On which a man his love could lay
As on a featherbed,to play

Geoffrey Chaucer------Romaunt Of The Rose


These little poems help me in my garden work during the cold days of winter---and help me to remember that---theres play to be had there as well
Happy gardening!