06/10/2026
Tuesday, June 10, 1924
"...This has been a happy day of a peace and quiet long unknown to me...I finished a short story in the forenoon - 'Some Fools and a Saint' - and spent the afternoon and evening working in my garden, enjoying every minute...
And I have the best garden I have ever had. Everything came up and there have been no bad thunderstorms to wash it out - another advantage of the cold spring. I have rows upon rows of delightful possibilities - corn, cucumbers, poppies, gypsophila, cosmos, peas, asters, gladiolii, beans, sweet peas, parsnips, sweet sultans, radishes, balsams, zinnias, beets, carrots, pansies, egg plant, parsley, nasturtiums, watermelons, lettuce, onions, cabbages, cauliflowers and tomatoes. I prowl about, weeding, watering, transplanting. My cats frisk around me, my small dog, of whom I am getting very fond, chases the cats and gets his ears boxed - by the cats - for his pains. And we are all so temporarily happy together that life seems good..."
The Selected Journals, Volume III, Edited by Mary Rubio and Elizabeth Waterston.
Photo in the Leaskdale Manse garden.
