Give and take
My daughter recently asked me if I could harvest some dandelion greens from our backyard for her bunny. I told her: “Sure.” Then I had a brilliant thought! “How about let’s do an exchange. I can give you…
A harvest of righteousness
For Christmas my son and daughter-in-law gave me an Advent Seed Calendar. I loved it! It was such great fun to open a little flap each day and discover a new exciting packet of seeds. I have been…
Chopped off … but there’s still so much hope!
I was sitting at my dining table this morning listening to an online sermon. The sun is shining today … and my soul was drinking in the sunshine. Winters where I live are very dark and grey, cloudy…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…