What do you get when you cross Mother Nature and a willingness to experiment in the garden? Dolly Sickles, our Optimistic Gardener. When she isn’t working in the non-profit sector, she can generally be found brandishing her gardening gloves.

Snowy Day = Happy Mother Nature

By Dolly R. Sickles

Posted: Jan 20, 2009

Mother Nature is rejoicing today! Not only is it a glorious, exciting inauguration day, but the snow we’re getting here in the Triangle will take us well into the spring. She’s put mean ol’ Mr. Dry on notice: we’ll have no drought this year.

Hopefully.

My boys have been paying homage to the snowy day. Snow angels all over the neighborhood. Blue Moon heferweitzen chilling on the back porch. Fertilizer pellets in the bases of all of our trees.
We’ve done all we can to keep the snow around for another day or so … and then I’ll be ready for sunshine and shorts.

But for today, have fun in the snow. Take Governor Perdue’s advice and stay off the roads. And pray for good water levels throughout the year.

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I'm so glad to see the snow on my garden, too.

Cameron Defining Your Home Garden

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January 20, 2009 2:56 p.m.

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Beautiful snow today. I always hate that first foot-step or tire ridge when everything is so clean and white. The deer have been in my backyard all morning munching on the shrubs. I've even seen a few cardinals. So pretty against the white snow.