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Life Lately as a Gardener, Writer, and Mom
Since I wrote last the irses have bloomed in the garden, we’ve plucked a few fresh strawberries, the roses continue bountifully, and my “everything” flowerbed is filling out. Just yesterday morning I noticed the first blooms on one of my hollyhocks! The stalk is so bent over and so lopsided that the deep purple blooms… Continue reading
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Hope in Every Season as the Sunflowers Die
As we come upon the ‘ber months as everyone seems to be calling them these days, the year is beginning to feel old. I don’t know what this year has been for you, but I know God is with you. I know you can trust Him with your heart. I know you needn’t try to make… Continue reading
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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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Hope Is a Gangly Thing (the garden, the bridge, the baby quilt🌼)
The March Garden // 2023 March is the month I just have to hold on. By this time the garden is still pretty ugly, although by the end of the month it gets to being gangly. Gangly is different than ugly. With gangly there are palpable ends of hope and awkward bursts of something though… Continue reading
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