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May 03, 2008

Things like to grow here

Three times today I strolled through Home Depot and Lowe's, buying topsoil and paving stones, only to see how many people had spring planting on their minds. The checkout aisles were jammed with carts carrying flowers, flower pots, pots for bigger plants, bags of soil amendment, bags of bark and Miracle-Gro and trees.

Sighting for the day: a couple tenderly wrapping a root pot in a garbage bag before trying to jam a six-foot tree in the back seat of their compact car.

There is plenty of outdoor work going on at home this nice spring weekend in Northern California. It was obvious today in the parking lots of the big-box home improvement giants: people love their little slice of paradise and are always trying to improve on it.