Back last month, I seriously thought my garden had met its demise. A foot of snow covered everything...cabbages, cauliflower, broccoli and carrots. It saddened me to think that all of the hard work put into getting a winter garden in would be killed by...what else...winter. Snow and 14 degree temperatures are not a normal occurrence down this far south. Personally, I am glad it is not. After the snow melted, I was surprised to see that most (not all but most) of the plants had survived. Especially healthy looking were the carrots! That blanket of snow did not seem to damper their ability to flourish. What a difference in just barely a month!
Today, being chilly, was a good day for a pot of soup. I had made cheese bread yesterday so that just begged for a big pot of potato/broccoli/carrot soup only there were no carrots on hand and I sure was not making the trip to the store for one item. So...potato/broccoli soup was started. It still sounded wonderfully warming and delicious! Midway into soup-making, I thought of my carrots in the garden! On a whim, I dashed out the door and, sure enough, found carrots large enough to harvest. I grabbed about a dozen and hurried back to add them to my pot of soup.
While I was washing the carrots, I noticed that two of the carrots had literally "hugged" each other while growing. They had twisted around on another in a tight spiral. Sweet! A thought occurred to me as I stirred the huge pot of soup. Perhaps those two carrots were befuddled by the drastic temperature change last month and held onto each other for support! Probably not except in my imagination. I have a tendency to look for niceties whenever possible. After all, all things are better with a hug!
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