If you are anything like me, right after Christmas and New Year celebrations you immediately start thinking about spring planting. Well, a fellow blogger, Flowery Prose, just helped me to remember what winter is for – a time of resting.

There is a time for everything, including resting, this is what winter is to me.

(even this Blue Jay appears to be resting)

Don’t get me wrong – I love my gardens and can’t wait to get into them every year. I love all parts of gardening from starting the seeds:

To moving those first starts into the gardens:

 

Even weeding:

Then there is that wonderful harvest:

 

Which always involves canning:

 

(this includes vacuum freezing and dehydrating)

So we should be like all of the other living things around our gardens (even the bad critters – grr!) and use winter as our time of rest!

 

 

 

 

 

Because once it finally starts to warm up outside – the work begins again!

 

Now, don’t-cha just love the time of rest – wooo hooo!