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Sound of Flowers
The October Garden, 2023 October was for mud caked on pants and zinnia flowers on cake. It was the playlist for autumn on repeat and dinosaurs at the torn-up tree stump. October was acorns dropping in droves and somehow never kerkplunking on our heads! It was the playful joy of children, moms talking, and a… Continue reading
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How to Make Harvest Cake
On the same day I decorated harvest cake, I said to Ben… “Can you imagine Christmas?” Our 3-year-old had just been talking to us. Words streaming right after one another. He is un-bothered by mornings and has so many things he needs to say or get done. “It’s going to be magic,” I continue. And… Continue reading
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No Other Season Finds Me Quite Like This…
We should have done it years ago. Planting fruit trees that is… But we dragged our feet awhile before getting down to business with peach, plum, and apple. What I didn’t know until now is even though a fruit tree won’t bear fruit for years upon getting it first in the ground, seeing the fruit… Continue reading
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Green Fables Guide to Autumn
Welcome to autumn says Garden of Green Fables with its deep pink zinnias and its bright orange mums. The ground is generously peppered with acorns from the surrounding oaks and the leaves serve as eclectic and misshapen rugs on the garden floor. It’s tired and beautiful, rich and quiet. Here we are in with our… Continue reading
