Even if it's only lettuce

It's been a lousy spring in my part of the world - weather-wise if nothing else.  I started out with high hopes as usual:  planted my peas way back in April and they actually came up in spite of all the cold and rain.

Then just about the time I was getting ready to get serious about the vegetable gardens, the weather tanked.  I mean it went straight to the proverbial hell in a hand basket.  Cold, snow, rain, harsh east wind, more rain....hard to tell this April from last November!

Planted beets and waited:  and waited.....and lurked over the rows....and waited.

I replanted them yesterday although I had seen a couple of beet-like sprouts in the rows.  But I suspect most of the seeds had rotted in the ground from all the rain and cold.

In the meantime I planted lettuce - several varieties of lettuce.  And lo and behold, they all came up and flourished in spite of the weather.  Are they big enough to pick yet?  Of course not.  Are they at least big enough so I know they are growing?  You bet!  Does it give me hope that eventually other things will sprout and grow?  Absolutely.

So, short and sweet:  if you can't do anything else to relieve your depression and sadness with the way the world, your life and the weather are going?

Plant lettuce.

It grows.