I love this weather, cool and reassuring after a too-warm, too-dry winter. It's nap weather. Soup weather. Cat weather. Cookie weather.

It makes me dream of what's coming to the garden:

   basil waiting to be whirled into pesto

   leeks to swirl across a chard tart

   French melons small and warm in the palm

   peas climbing toward heaven

   tomatoes for everyone: Sungolds that jump into my mouth, San Marzanos with their saucy 

     girly figures, Mr. Stripey to make kids giggle

Gardens in my dreams.