Rooted In Nature

About Rooted In Nature

On the low peninsulas between Frog Mortar and Dark Head Creek, winter announces itself off the water first — a raw gray push of air up the Chesapeake hours before the first flake ever lands. Rooted In Nature works ahead of it, plowing and shoveling and laying down salt along the lanes off Wilson Point and Eastern Boulevard so a driveway is open and dark and passable while the sky over Martin State is still black. There is a plain satisfaction in a walk scraped clean to the bare concrete, edges treated, waiting on a porch light to come on. The other half of the year asks something different of the very same streets: tidewater air turns this ground green in a hurry, and the work becomes mowing, trimming and edging, a straight line held along every curb and bed. Two kinds of weather, one promise kept — footing you can trust in January, and a lawn in July that looks tended from the road.