June Garden

"I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, 

and stand in deep contemplation over  my vegetable
progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive 

of who had never taken part in the process of creation.  

It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world 

to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, 

or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently 

to trace a line of delicate green.
-   Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mosses from an Old Manse