Spiral Records
Sunlight warmed the plastic tags marking individual tomato plants, their colors faded with the season’s passing. Charts filled notebooks—rows of numbers corresponding to weight and yield, meticulously kept for some plots but sparse elsewhere, revealing patterns only through what wasn't recorded. These accumulations weren’t simply measurements of growth; instead, they demonstrated how repeated attention shaped a visible history across the untended edges of the gardens. The landscape itself bore witness—a record not of things *being*, but of care slowly taking form.