This time of year we desperately begin to look for signs of spring. We start seeds and keep an eye out for our perennial herb friends to emerge in the garden. In early March I noticed the horehound was leafed out. The day after our February meeting was the first thunderstorm of the season. Some of my Native American friends celebrate the first thunderstorm as the return of the Thunder Beings, marking the end of winter and life again coming to the earth, with an impromptu potluck with corn soup and fry bread. All hopeful signs
that we have survived another winter and spring is near!
- Jill Kuhel, Co-President