Leah says that the photograph above looks like a stained glass window. I suppose another pair of eyes -- yours, perhaps? -- might perceive something entirely different.
In a literal sense, what you’re looking at is the dried-out and decayed shell of a tomatillo, a little visual surprise we discovered the other day as we began to do a spring clean-up of our garden. Leah brought several of these wispy puff-balls indoors and has placed them on our kitchen window sill. When the early-morning light shines through them, it’s really something to see.
I do feel just a tad guilty about posting these pictures and words, in that many of our friends and family members who live Back East or in the Midwest are still shoveling snow out of their driveways...but here Leah and I are, living in the Pacific Northwest where we’ve had an unseasonably mild winter. This week we’re enjoying daytime temperatures in the 50’s and planning our garden for the coming spring and summer (actually it feels like spring is already here. My allergies certainly think so.)
Not that I’m bragging about our weather. One thing we know in the often-rainy Northwest is that our weather will return to drippy any day now. This week, however, all is right with our world.
