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Show Thursday, May 10, 2007 16 SPRINGVILLE HERALD Been There, Done That To sow what you reap Liz Elder I'm thinking about doing something different differ-ent with my yard this year. I'm thinking about doing exactly what I want. This is new for me. Gardening Gar-dening has always been fraught with rules about "too late," "too early," "too hot," "ioo cold," "too much acid," "not enough fertilizer." It all centers around the great mystery of horticulture, something that other people know, even some people I think are kind of dumb. It's like there's actually actu-ally going to be an atomic explosion if something costing 98 cents dies in my yard. People will stand and point, "Look, half their delphiniums died. What blockheads!" Then two years ago there was a big moment in my life, a moment in mid-July, with the temper Looking for the Perfect Partnerf A Nissan from Ken Garff can last forever... Well, almost! F ien uam. r u Nissan Orern 866-448-0140 285 W. 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Plant late, defy the rules, live it up. BE YOURSELF!" Possibly, it occurs to me, it would be okay to be an imperfect gardener. Maybe May-be I could grab a few things from the nursery that I liked and just stick s NISSAN ' IT, OremSalt LakeOgden r F 640 r Sat 9am-5pm 5520 www.artista.net I . . mmm i Heritage Care Skilled Nursing Rehabilitation Long Term Care Assisted Living Level 1 Respite Care Hospice Integrated Secured Unit Care to 22 r -0 them in the ground and see what happens. Maybe, maybe I could dig up some past mistakes and toss them, rearrange things, make a few really re-ally bad decisions, just like my real life! Maybe then, things could be figured fig-ured out after these experiments, ex-periments, so to speak; I could, you know, repent and try again! Maybe there are not that many people who care if I plant a "sun-loving plant" in "partial shade!" Man oh man, what if this is true. What if no one cares if I mess up? Are there other lessons to be learned from my shaky relationship with the plant world? Last year, a yard service ser-vice had the wonderful wonder-ful opportunity to spend 14 hours at our house hauling away 20 years ofprocrastination. For a final flourish, they planted a few flowers by the front door. ' These flowers were clearly not mine: my theory the-ory is that if you plant the whole flat of petunias, petu-nias, maybe you won't have to weed. These were a few flowers, not all the same kind, planted separately. They looked so amazing. Maybe you don't have to kill yourself to have things be okay. In nature, things seem to go to waste: seeds don't sprout, fruit gets frozen, trees die from drought. Sure, there's the whole return to the earth thing, I get that. But if you were a strict perfectionist, perfec-tionist, nature is not the 4s . Look who visited Art City Elementary on Friday. Mav 4th...Junie B Jones, Fern, Fancy Nancy and even Anakin Skywalker. Why were they in school? It was character day for the first graders and each ' was a 9reat way see wha mwwm aic udtu reidruitf55 ui Center 350 East 300 North American Fork, Utah 84003 801-756-5293 es Needs -V.'-'. ... .-4. . i y I ! ' I i . X i X 'It- .V t The fourth grade students at Sage Creek Elementary went to the wetlands last week. We had a great time and learned a lot about the animals that live there. We saw ospreys, an eagle, some pelicans and lots, lots more. It was Very fun! We want to thank David Lee and Scott Root from the Division of Wildlife for making this day possible. Wirtten ay Jonny Tullis annd Wade Johnsen place to look. In the mountains, where I'm writing this, there are little vignettes of trees, grasses, and a few flowers, flow-ers, almost like different arrangements at a giant florist's who's elected to sell trees for some reason. These arrangements are ragged, calming and perfect per-fect in their imperfection. Sometimes life seems so complicated; maybe a good weeding, possibly even some Round-Up would help in places. In my heart of hearts, I see my refrigerator as a reflection of my life. When it's all messed up, my life is usually pretty pret-ty disorganized. Maybe my garden can be that too, the place where I learn to dare, learn to have confidence confi-dence in my ability to try whatever I'd like. Liz can be reached at celder200 lyahoo.com s ANAKIN'S to see that some your age. hi A 1 - I ; ... .: "1- ,t W Tip-a-Cop Friday at Applebees Mapleton police are participating par-ticipating in the annual Tip-a-Cop program to benefit Special Olympics on Friday, Fri-day, May 11, from 6 to 10 p.m. at Applebees in Orem. Past meets present as "The Heritage Train," a small-scaled reproduction of the Jupiter, pulled in at Wal-Mart in Springville Tuesday. The train was heading north to meet the Union Pacific reproduction at This is the Place park where reenactments of the joining of the transcontinental railroad will be held on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, May 10, 11 and 12. The Jupiter stopped in Springville long enough to give free rides to Wal-mart customers and employees. Photo by Debra Wells w !: d) h 0FORS - mgmmm RinwniiT CAICI s1 4,488 v., a. ,,. . ,si... Wii:iiiiiiiiiTiiiiiiii(i;iiiiiiiii)ii.fiiiiii(if I i3 KCreat Rate For Families ivith 1mm Drivers Great Service Lowest Possible Package Friendly Staff Payments Discounts Tickets Good Driver RV's-Boats- Accidents Discounts Motorcycles SR 22's Preferred (Immediate) Driver Rates ..... "" i TTT,Tf iC f fWJT5 - . Sim'' 1 i 1 V 7 r The police will be waiting tables and collecting donations dona-tions for Tip-a-Cop. They invite everyone to come to Applebees and join them in the fun. 1 Q c ; tninmiiimiiMiiii ImiI Company -n m mrrrmrrrr I I j v |