Four Seasons Quotes

“Gardening is easier and quicker when spacings are correct for different plants.”
― Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing

“Keep an open mind and try some new methods.”
― Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing

“Try things out, be happy to make mistakes, but above all have a go.”
― Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing

“Once your soil is fertile and weed-free, everything else becomes easier.”
― Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing

“Zoey picked up her spoon and tasted it, and she was immediately and startlingly transported to a perfect autumn childhood day, the kind of day when sunlight is short but it's still warm enough to play outside.
For the second course, the chilled crab cake was only the size of a silver dollar and the mustard cream and the green endive were just splashes of color on the plate. The visual experience was like dreaming of faraway summer while staring at Christmas lights through a frosty window.
The third course brought to mind the first hot day of spring, when it's too warm to eat in the house so you sit outside with a dinner plate of Easter ham and corn on your lap and a bottle of Coca-Cola sweating beside you. Zoey could feel the excitement of summer coming, and she couldn't wait for it.
And then summer arrived with the final course. And, like summer always is, it was worth the wait. The tiny container looked like a miniature milk glass, and the whipped milk in it reminded her of cold, sweet soft-serve ice cream on a day when the pavement burns through flip-flops and even shade trees are too hot to sit under. The savory bits of crispy cornbread mixed in gave the dessert a satisfying campfire crunch.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Other Birds

“Seasons Fore by Stewart Stafford

Winter elbows its way to prominence,
Placid Spring gradually lays on the land,
To presage Summer’s teeming exuberance,
Before Autumn messily rents all asunder.

Niveous shroud, promising blossom,
Roaring greenery and russet capitulation,
Four seasons and their intricate combinations,
Alighting passengers in another year of life.

Nature’s window dressing encircles,
Time’s passing at the grandfather clock,
As heartbeats throb and ebb eternally,
The closing of an eyelid, our pacemaker.

© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford