Saga of the Sanpitch Vol 19

Eva, Spring and Little Green Onions

Even while the side of snow the still lies bushes patches north can and be heard buzzing contentedly by the plum blossoms forsythia the little green onions have sent pungent addition In pioneer purchased new addition milk Those share or usually My the for might year were their send bunch necessity of the had or of in a2 the staple nice bunch water-tap rhubarb one The were time own use child to the and stately rock onions that large brothers grew and were to left Ephraim outside clumps what had garden sisters all came She was on 3rd East her from with trade in little productive and store child near few could the onions and gardens and onions for flavor bread their treat onions all been parents of and in green be super of from our good neighbor Eva Anderson living alone when we moved next to her and could welcome onions multiplier are lengtha brisk and vegetables meal-time plenty start of bees salads before who cleaned some cor onions folks they freshly for to had soups month green the their white bulbs two would furnish times every markets ful to before on the out strong roots and ening so that one or and in of at when lived in her that house And each year as the onions begin to produce even before the last of the carrots have been brought out from under their deep covering of leaves flood of memories comes back to me Memories that began onfarm in Ioka in the Uintah Basin whenwas the child who took some bunches of cleaned to Murphy onions store in little Memories cloth of salt riding sack over horseback past the brown fields and through the sandhills and sagebrush anc cedars to where the roads forked and saw the big dog-like animal larger than coyote sitting orn its haunches and half snarling at me astook the other road on down to Upalco Memories of xied to be brave as long as the wild beast see me and Lhen after we had crossedsandhills howurged my ho to run as Zirst homes in he could until the little town of 123 reached Upalco the