Paying attention to the garden in spring, it’s really amazing how fast plants grow, at least around here

(Portland is relatively recent volcanic soil enriched by several mountain ranges worth of seasonal and glacial flood deposits and surrounded by rainforests)

I’m trying to keep dandelions from reestablishing themselves after pulling a ton last year, so I’m scanning the ground every day and I’ll pull everything and come back the next day and find whole plants - tiny, but complete, tiny little rosette of leaves, tiny little one flower in blossom on one inch of stem - that popped up in the 10 hours of sunlight since I last checked.

There’s a view out the window from the couch where I’m sitting now, that passes through the branches of two trees getting their leaves in, and every hour I look up its more opaquely occluded