2011 Green With Hope

Goodbye to 2010... though a wonderful ground-breaking year it was.  Allen Ashelman, one of my dad's best friends and a great friend of mine as well, used to talk about his favorite day of farming.  It would come one morning every spring; it was the day he'd wake up and look out across his fields and sprouts had finally broken through the soil and turned his world from muddy brown to spring green.  2010 was a long spring of sorts and  December 2010 was the metaphoric spring day at the start of a new season in my life.  And now 2011 is taking off as that still fragile but ever so beautiful spring crop is greening my world with hope.