Beautiful weekend in Alberta. The daylight is getting longer and longer. It isn't completely dark until after 10:30 p.m. which can be really misleading. You think it is only about 8:30 in the evening and before you know it, it is going on 11 o'clock. The sun is up really early (before 5:30 a.m.) so unless you have invested in some good blackout curtains, you wake up rather early.
We deserve these nice warmish days and cool evenings. We paid the ultimate price. The first week I arrived the temperature was a brisk 40 below. Yes, I said 40 below. 40 frickin degrees below ZERO. I remember once of my first comments to colleagues when I was queried about my thoughts on that subject. Something along the lines that "human beings should not be subjected to that kind of brutality." Wasn't Canada represented at the Geneva convention?
I know these temps and sunny days won't last far long enough. Winter will be here before we know it when the daylight lasts only about 2 1/2 hours per day, or so it seems. In celebration of my enlightened spirit which I attribute directly to the sun and warmer temps, we went and purchased all kinds of annuals, tomato plants, sunflowers. Believe me when I say the "pickins" are pretty different from south Texas to northern Alberta on plant selections.
I spent the majority of Sunday getting them in the ground and stuffing my hands into the dark and rich soil. Oh, gardening, how I have missed thee and taken thee for granted.
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