garden reflections
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How I Spend Late Summer Days in my California Garden
In these days which are neither height of bustling summer nor invigorating rush of autumn’s beginning, I start to notice the change in light, my gaze is pushed past the withering sunflowers to the sky. I’m drawn to the the blue canopy above. Everything dying pushes my gaze up, up, up. Isn’t that just like… 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
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Beneath Brokenness and Blessing…
The September Garden, 2023 Surely the garden is lovely in spring when the world of it wakes up so softly…a bursting out of winter. I love to see it. Surely the garden’s eyes are fully awake in the thick of summer. Heavy with bloom. Heavy with fruit. Heavy with light. I cannot deny the breadth… Continue reading
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Love Letter to High Summer
High summer when the clouds brush against the sky, hang heavy in the air, when the lone hollyhock bends low, when you have to duck beneath the sunflowers just to get by. High summer when the garden stones are still warm, and the roses bloom when they can, and blackberries scent your evening walk. High… Continue reading
Sierra V. Fedorko 