Nature Journal
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Summer Wildflower Tour
If you want to start a garden but don’t know how to start… The solution is simple. Find a flower pot or purchase a simple raised flowerbed and throw wildflowers atop the soil like a blanket. Then? Toss soil over the top of those seeds for a light covering and soak in with water Viola!… Continue reading
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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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The God of All Comfort – a poem for any life season
the flowers we plantedwould bloom,draw the birds over time.the birds would singin the morninglouder than my sorrow,or equal to my joy.I studied this for a while,bitter in spirit or sweetof souluntil the comfort of Godwon out;the birdsonghad never been a commentaryon my life season at all,it was simplythe Lord God doingbeautiful thingsas He always had… Continue reading
