Winter Trees

All the complicated details
of the attiring and
the disattiring are completed!
A liquid moon
moves gently among
the long branches.
Thus having prepared their buds
against a sure winter
the wise trees
stand sleeping in the cold.

—William Carlos Williams

 

We sowed the seeds for a cover crop in the new community orchard, an organic blend of Winter Rye and Hairy Vetch, selected by Eva.

 

The idea is to plow the crop under after it grows, to prepare the soil for our delicious new fruit trees. The snow had other ideas; we’ll see what the coming months bring, but the instant winter was beautiful: