tiny moments (and everything in between)
Over on ViewFinders today, I’m sharing my love of zinnias. Click here to read and to see a few macro shots of my sweet zinnias. Before you click over (or after you come back), I want to tell you one of the best parts about the zinnias. Yes, the fact that they reseeded themselves makes me inordinately … Continue reading Haphazard Zinnias
The cooler autumn weather has set in and I’m content with pants-sweaters-boots every day now. Yes, please and thank you. I’m ready for this turn of season. Lately, when I wash dishes at the kitchen sink, I look out to our raised garden beds and think about preparing them for the winter months. It wasn’t an … Continue reading All In Good Time
Last week I finally put the garden to bed. It was a crisp and windy day, sunny and a little bit glorious. The raspberry bushes scraped my hands; I didn't mind. It felt good to be outside. It felt good to be tackling a job I'd been avoiding. It felt good (truly) to be alive. … Continue reading On Feeling Alive
An ongoing series of Monday snapshots and quiet reflections. Sometimes Mondays look like almost ready.
An ongoing series of Monday snapshots and quiet reflections. Sometimes Mondays look like the beginnings of blueberries. ***Registration is still open for the next round of Just 5 Things. We’ll be playing with creative list making…part fun, part soulful. All doable. Will you join us? Click here to read about the class and to … Continue reading :: Sometimes Mondays ::
An ongoing series of Monday snapshots and quiet reflections. Sometimes Mondays look like more cosmos.
Unfurling. I brought some cosmos clippings indoors recently and, when the blooms began drooping, I prepared to toss them. But then I noticed the buds (so many of them) on the stems. They were wrapped in a nearly-transparent, waxy kind of flattened disc. How did I not notice this before? Something about the waxiness, something about … Continue reading Reflected
Well, you knew there'd be more flowers around here, didn't you? The garden is a beautiful mess. And I do mean mess. It's a tad thick but I can't bear to thin anything out. Things are looking full and generally healthy (and generally beautiful) so I'm leaving the garden as is. I'm thinking of it … Continue reading A Mini Meadow
every time i head out to the garden - this summer, last summer, ever - i vastly underestimate the amount of time a given task is going to take me. i think i'm heading out to weed for thirty minutes and it takes closer to ninety. i do this over and over again. yesterday was … Continue reading dear garden
i've had gardens in years past...gardens that produced greens and squashes and peppers and such. it was pretty great to gather and then enjoy the harvest. but the past few seasons have left me feeling depleted, deflated, defeated. the deer and stink bugs eating what they shouldn't, my kids not eating what they should. this … Continue reading desire {a.k.a. flowers}
Michelle GD 