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   ...April showers bring May flowers...As I looked down at the bricks of the walkway of my kitchen doo, I spotted an independent chervil plant growing in triumph over its surrounding conditions.  Must transplant that little trooper!  It had goten warm enough that I took some of my hoisebound herb plants to stay outdoors finally.  I was sure that it was finally spring as I found myself wanting to paint something.  After seeing a special aqua-colored cache pot on the cover of a gardening magazine, I decided to paint one of my terra cotta pots with the yummy aqua paint I "just happened" to have on hand.  Does that surprise any of us?

November's Lesson...

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Skeleton leaf        ...November, and we are fast approaching the first snows of the winter.  It would seem that we had an Indian summer that amounted to all of four days at best.  The change was noticeable as if ordered for delivery on November 1st.  The skies changed to the moody, broody gray of November, and the breeze had a distinctly different smell to it.   As I walked around town I could hear the papery dry rustling of leaves blowing in the breeze.  There was a quiet quality to the couple of blocks I had walked to reach Lake Anna in the center of town.  Leaves were dropping from the trees in mass, creating a golden carpet everywhere. Even when the skies were overcast there was still a golden light reflected from the leaf covering throughout the neighborhood.  The color displays were not so dazzling this year as in years passed.  But the best was yet to come.  That is where the lesson of less being more comes into play.  It is the middle of the month and many of the trees