For the Love of Asparagus in a Rainstorm

Typically, we think of asparagus in spring time.

Crisp, flavorful spears. Signs of New Life in the Garden.

 The plants themselves though are quite magnificent in the garden all year round.

Full of movement and frills, waving in the wind and dancing in and out of summer fruits -- 

holding onto raindrops like tiny little beads of light:

Started from seed in tiny little pots...transferred to hay bales in pockets of soil....

Every year, the grow to a toddler's height, waving and dancing and catching those rain drops.

For the love of asparagus in a rainstorm is a reason alone to garden.