Daily Blessing

“Forest Heart” – a poem for Mother’s Day

All throughout the years when my kids were little and growing up, I would write a Mother’s Day poem each year for Mother’s Day. In fact, those poems were the very beginning of my writing … which eventually…

May 7, 2025Poems

Cinco de Madre!

Mother’s Day is this coming Sunday. All of us are busy with different things planned on Sunday, so my kids decided to celebrate Mother’s Day early. Everyone was free for dinner Monday evening, so that’s what we did. …

May 6, 2025Gratitude

So … how is it going?? – 2.0

You have probably been wondering: “Did the little snail ever make it down??” (from the blog post a few days ago about the little snail hanging out in dangerous places!) Hanging out in dangerous places! - Daily Blessing…

May 5, 2025Life Lessons

So … how is it going??

I know you are just dying to know how the mums are doing, after they survived overwintering in the workshop … and barely escaped being eaten by the deer! You might be thinking: “They are probably thriving and…

May 4, 2025Lessons in the Dirt

Love covers over offenses.

A scraggly tree used to grow back in the garden corner. Half of its growth was rotten. Its shade blocked the garden from sunshine. So, two winters ago hubby chopped the tree down. But … just because you…

May 3, 2025Lessons from the forest, What is love?

Blooming sideways

My friend who recently had intense spine surgery (where they cut her back open from top to bottom and re-straightened her spine with rods) just had her 6-week post-op follow-up appointment, in which she was told by the…

May 2, 2025Lessons in the Dirt

Joyful “firsts!”

It's May 1st ... and the hummingbirds are sharing the feeder together! I had wondered if they would share the feeder together again this year. This is a "first" for this year! Yay for joyful "firsts!"And ... the…

May 1, 2025Gratitude

Be careful what you bring inside!

Hubby and I were at the garden center picking up some potting soil for our new planter box on the back deck. We made sure to get some really good potting soil with steer manure … our plants…

April 30, 2025Lessons in the Dirt

From the outside looking in …

Hubby built me a new planter for summer. I’m thrilled! He had been puttering about in the workshop this past winter, figuring out a creative way to make a planter box out of leftover decking material and leftover…

April 29, 2025Lessons in the Dirt

Storing up treasures in boots!

Squirrelina has been hard at work storing up treasures in boots! Hubby went out on Saturday to put his garden boots on … and lo and behold, his boots were full of stored-up treasures of Big-Leaf Maples seeds! …

April 28, 2025Lessons from the forest