When the weather is mild...

...I get out and clean some garden beds.
It was great. Really.
Playing in the mud and realizing later that my gloves had holes in the fingers. ah well. The work felt good. I planted strawberries last summer and underneath all the leaves from fall I found all the little offshoots that they have been happily putting out this winter. I have twice as many plants as I did six months ago. That should make for some fun eating come late June. My herbs all needed trimming back of dead wood. Oregano and bronze fennel are coming up everywhere and I found a lone catnip plant that somehow grew underneath my sprawling rosemary bush. I love catnip in the summer - it gets three or four feet high with lovely white flowers that the honey bees love. It also makes a great addition to calming the nerves tea. I'll hve to make sure my cat doesn't find it for the next few months.
There's a lot of work ahead but the beauty of visiting the garden here in February is that nothing quite stops over winter. There is evidence of the abundance that is just around the corner.