You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming. ~ Pablo Neruda

Three Questions, January 25, 2025

You can find the background to The Three Questions in my recent post about it. I’ll be answering the questions each day for the next year and putting this experience into a book. Here we go!

What was the most beautiful thing I encountered today?

Today while walking around San Francisco, I came up over the hill near Washington Street, and there before me on a pretty sunny day was the bay, shiny and blue with Alcatraz gleaming in the sun and sail boats out and about.

What did I learn today?

On my walk, as I neared Chinatown I saw huge crowds and learned today was the Lunar festival and parade celebration.

What made me happy today?

At the end of the growing season in November, I cut back most of my plants and let the green parts die. But one plant made it through, shot new sprouts and kept growing. So I have one decent size tomato plant still producing leaves and flowers. If it makes it a few more weeks it will be one heck of head start for the new growing season and the idea of potentially ripe tomatoes early in April makes me very happy.