Morning Gardening

Morning Gardening

This morning
With the breeze
The air
The temperature

I remember feeling
Feeling the cool dirt
Between my fingers
My fingertips
As I remember loosing
The soil with the three claw
Claw tool
To prepare the soil

How I remember my Dad
Giving me tasks to finish
Finish up mixing the top soil
Digging up the gardens
In the different areas
Areas that dad wanted
Wanted to plant his garden

How I remember the hard work
All the work the family did
In Tuscon... In New Jersey... In Guam
Finally in New Mexico

All the different Seeds he planted
The blueprints on paper
He would spend hours drawing
Depending on what base we were at
He would look through seed catalogs

Figuring out which would not grow
In that climate or that season
He made sure that his crops
Were always watered

When come harvest he would
Would pick the crops
He would give some away

Some crops he would
Would have my mom
Make varies dishes
Or Breads
To be given away
Or to be sold

I remember ever season
All the time at about the same time
I would help  my dad
With Harvesting.. digging...
Keeping up the Garden
In the Spring
In the Fall

How I remember ...
My dad in the Mornings
At Dawn

Morning Gardening