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Morning Sentences

Six Days Away from the Garden

One almost broccoli
Two fat slugs
Three tomatoes – eaten*
Four stalks of rhubarb
A fistful of chard
Six orange beets
A passel of peas
Eight yellow squash blossoms
Scads of purple flowers
A bushel of bean blooms
Eleven juicy strawberries
Twelve little basil leaves…

And fifteen enormous mole hills.

*by me

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Gretchen Staebler

I am a Pacific Northwest native transplanted to the southeast for 36 years. In 2012, I returned to my childhood home and fell in love with this corner of the country again. I am a grandmother, a storywriter, a teacher, an attention payer, a hiker, and a back roads wanderer. Check out my website (and my memoir) at www.gretchenstaebler.com.

7 thoughts on “Morning Sentences”

  1. Yes, the bounty is just beginning. And it should be amazing this year with all this sunshine! I love hearing about your garden – you are an inspiration.

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    1. As is usual, good news and bad news from the garden–but on the whole, it sounds like a bountiful harvest.
      Sally

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