A garden in the rain

Green is the prime color of the world, 

and that from which its loveliness arises.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Oh, it is wet and chilly again, with rain in the forecast for the entire week. But perfectly, absolutely green in Seattle.

It's too soggy to weed the flower beds and I'm not working outside much like I usually do in April.  I'll pay for it later, or maybe that seven yards of compost mulch will keep the riff-raff tamped down.  Time will tell. The tulips are almost finished and with all the fuss with the hedge, we haven't had much time to admire the beautiful things happening around here.

The old standard "A Garden in the Rain" has some of the prettiest song lyrics ever written. The song was first published in 1928 and the Four Aces made a popular recording in the 1950's, but that high harmony kind of puts my teeth on edge.  (Sorry, Four Aces.)  Sarah Vaugh's version is beautiful of course, and in 1997 Diana Krall recorded it. You can listen to all of these and more on YouTube.

But in my opinion, the sweetest version is still the original, recorded by Gene Austin in 1929.