Warm showers bring out the best in a garden.
The corn pushes through the rough soil overnight. The beans, dormant through two weeks of chilly days, gather new life, adding leaves and beginning to suggest they might actually make someday. Potatoes, which previously had shown total disinterest in sprouting, burst through the crusty soil, their sturdy leaves dark green against the lighter straw mulch. You like cool weather. We've done our work.