gardening
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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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Little Boy Came When the Sunflowers Bloomed
Every day past my due date felt so long. But he came as babies do…in his own time. Laughter punctuates his birth story and it’s this time of year especially that thrills my mother’s heart. Four years ago I became a mom and felt the joy of it in those late nights nursing my son.… Continue reading
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Fairies Move into the Summer Garden!
On a warm and cloudy summer morning I walked into the garden to find a fairy family had moved into the flower bed. Quite a history they must have, but I’m thrilled they ended up in our neck of the woods, or more accurately our garden in the northern California foothills. As you see here… Continue reading
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When Spring Is Hard to Feel…
Last week I unexpectedly found myself at my desert home due to a family emergency. I’ll not talk about that here, but I will share what has stuck out to me in these chaotic weeks of waiting and processing. And it is simply this… The morning birdsong was still so sweet despite the long hours of… Continue reading
