The ground is workable from the second week of March most years. You put a fork in by the gate and if it goes down clean and comes up without clagging you have the beds, and if it does not you wait, and I have waited fifty-three springs in this garden and have never once…

You're the one who came here looking for me. Okay, maybe I was waiting for you, too. I hope I was. If so, I'm glad I did it. But I don't know when the magic we make together will get up and just disappear on its own one day any more than you.…