Re: Humor Emergency

**"* C* <y*@ispnet.ca>**

Hi Betty: I have often used this quotation from Henry Mitchell's, The Essential Earthman. Mitchell was never one to pussyfoot around the difficulties of his favorite pastime: 
  "It is not nice to garden anywhere. Everywhere there are violent winds, startling once-per-five-centuries floods, unprecedented droughts, record-setting freezes, abusive and blasting heats never known before. There is no place, no garden, where these terrible things do not drive gardeners mad.....There are no green thumbs or black thumbs. There are only gardeners and non-gardeners. Gardeners are the ones who ruin after ruin get one with the high defiance of nature herself, creating in the very face of her chaos and tornado, the bower of roses and the pride of irises."
Fits the disaster, doesn't it? What a miserable April!

Cheers, Yvonne
www.flower-gardening-made-easy.com
http://countrygardener.blogspot.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Betty Mackey" <BettyMackey@verizon.net>
To: "Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum" <gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 9:41 PM
Subject: [GWL] Humor Emergency

> Tomorrow at noon I'm giving a local garden club a program of tips that make gardening a little easier. The location is roughly 15 miles NW of Philadelphia. I'm having a humor emergency -- we've had such disastrous weather here that my audience may be very discouraged. 
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