Lessons in the Dirt Archives

Are you still not ripe yet??

The month of October ushers in the season of pumpkins. Pumpkin-spice lattes appear at all the coffee shops! Pumpkin-spice candles are in all the stores. Pumpkins of every size spill out of large bins in front of grocery…

November 18, 2025Corinth, Lessons in the Dirt

Generational legacy

The lupines are still blooming! It’s Labor Day weekend … and the lupines are still blooming! This brings me so much joy! Lupines are my favorite flowers! Right up there next to sunflowers! The lupines always start blooming…

August 30, 2025Lessons in the Dirt

Support Circle!

A pop of bold vivid color on a grey, overcast, chilly day. This makes me so happy! My daughter gave me a package of yellow and a package of pink gladiolus bulbs for Mother’s Day last year. The…

August 17, 2025Lessons in the Dirt

The glory that is to be revealed

I was headed down the back deck steps with the watering can, to take some water over to the raspberries … when the gladiolus caught my eye! The sun was coming up right behind it, and the gladiolus…

August 13, 2025Lessons in the Dirt

What is your life? It is but a raspberry vine …

The temperatures climbed up into the 90’s this week. Hubby and I do not have a soaker hose in the berry garden, so in the coolness of the early morning I carried several watering cans over to water…

August 12, 2025Lessons in the Dirt

When you feel chewed up by life

Some bug has taken up residence on my Hoopes rose this summer and has been eating the leaves to smithereens. Here you can see the chewed up leaves … I really liked this photo of the raindrops on…

August 11, 2025Hope, Lessons in the Dirt

Blooming tenaciously!

In spite of the setback of having their leaves eaten off by the deer, the hostas are blooming tenaciously! I find this to be so inspiring! In life we go through seasons and times when it feels as…

August 2, 2025Hope, Lessons in the Dirt

Go … and replicate yourself.

Growing alongside the raspberries in my garden are a couple of strawberry plants. This strawberry plant here is one which hubby and I purchased three years ago from a fancy schmancy garden nursery. Much to my surprise this…

July 27, 2025Lessons in the Dirt

Raspberry Lessons: Parenting!

As I was picking raspberries I came across this grouping of berries up underneath the vines and leaves. My immediate “blink” reaction was: That’s just like parenting! These berries are not ready to be picked yet. They are…

July 26, 2025Lessons in the Dirt

Raspberry Lessons: High and lofty!

I was out in the garden picking raspberries in the cool quiet of the early morning. As I gazed up at the highest raspberries reaching for the sky … the thought suddenly struck me: those raspberries way up…

July 25, 2025Lessons in the Dirt