Naneum*

 

It has been such a cold wet spring. 

More rain in May than ever before. 

Temperatures that still threaten to dip into the 30s. 

 

I put out two tomato plants today. 

I won’t leave them completely vulnerable to nature,

but will shield them a bit from the elements.

 

I was reminded of something my Grandpa Jake Frederick said, 

“We can’t plant until the snow leaves the Naneum.”

 

*The Native American place name for the ridge line on the high hills on the north side of the Kittitas Valley in Central Washington State.