For comparison, below are two pictures of the same area taken 24 years apart. Granted the first was taken in August during a drought and the second in May. Nor do I think any seasoned gardener or farmer would doubt that there’s been a change in climate during that interval either.
Even so, when I saw that barren slope to the right of the car in the first picture and compared it that same slope now, it was impossible not to recall my plan to cover that area with a carpet of wildflowers.
Nor can I ever forget what I learned about natural and human time time in the process. If I needed any further evidence, that all those black locust trees are the last to get their leaves and look dead when everything else is covered in lush green spring foliage serves as an additional reminder of the cost of my impatience and ignorance.
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