Sign of the Season
Signs of the upcoming holiday season are blooming all around us. Tonight as I walked through CVS, I kept tripping over store employees busily stocking the shelves with candy canes and tins of holiday themed Poppycock. Wawa has egg nog in stock. The snowflake lights are up on Market Street. And the Whole Foods entrance is filled with tree-shaped rosemary plants.
I don’t know why, but the appearance of these conically trimmed rosemary bushes always makes me happy. I love everything about rosemary, it’s scent, it’s flexible food uses, it’s sturdiness. If I was an herb, this is the one I would be. Friday afternoon, I ran into Whole Foods to pick up cranberries and was waylaid by the fragrance of a small space filled with rosemary. I bought one and have it sitting near my computer, filling my workspace with its fresh, green scent. Holiday season, I welcome you!
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i looove rosemary. i would looove one of those bushes too, except the cats would eat it and get sick.