garden journal
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Before I Turn 30 – some thoughts
I came home to my son standing soaked in the garden. The sprinklers shooting into the air and falling in that back and forth rhythm. His smile was wide. My husband was watering the sunflowers and soon my daugther, also soaked by garden sprinklers–our little water baby–would come to say hello. I’d hug my happy,… Continue reading
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Look Inside My Garden Journal + Tips to Start YOURS!
In last week’s post I wrote of reclaiming the lost art of winter. These colder, darker and much shorter days make way for the body to rest and for the heart with all its prayers and dreams to sit in the ground like a seed and be watered. It’s a deep breath. And oh how… Continue reading
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The Official Autumn Playlist
On every Tuesday afternoon in October I invited my neighbors and their children to spend time in the garden. Gardens are for people. That’s what I wrote in my garden journal for Year 2023, words from Monty Don, but ones I wanted to live out in Green Fables. I envisioned iced tea and glassware and… Continue reading
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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
