Yes My Thumb Is This Green

Give me a trowel, seeds, a straw hat, and a boat load of dirt. Dump it into a fierce pile, and I will throw myself onto it. Hugging it like a California hippie hugs her trees. Hire me a tiller and let me make friends with the earth worms. I will plant potatoes, tomatoes, lettuce, peas, carrots and beans, daffodils, cone flowers, roses, lilacs, crepe myrtle, and marigolds. Spending six to eight glorious hours outside, being a gardener. Renegade plants will admire me and push up through the soil. I will have violets, red mushrooms, and Queen Anne’s Lace. There might be a giant sunflower, and my apple tree will blossom. Give me a plant, a bush, a tree, or a seed and stand back. We might grow Jack’s beanstalk because my thumb is this green!