So … how is it going??
I know you are just dying to know how the mums are doing, after they survived overwintering in the workshop … and barely escaped being eaten by the deer! You might be thinking: “They are probably thriving and…
Blooming sideways
My friend who recently had intense spine surgery (where they cut her back open from top to bottom and re-straightened her spine with rods) just had her 6-week post-op follow-up appointment, in which she was told by the…
Be careful what you bring inside!
Hubby and I were at the garden center picking up some potting soil for our new planter box on the back deck. We made sure to get some really good potting soil with steer manure … our plants…
From the outside looking in …
Hubby built me a new planter for summer. I’m thrilled! He had been puttering about in the workshop this past winter, figuring out a creative way to make a planter box out of leftover decking material and leftover…
Parable of the Big-Leaf Maple seeds!
I have been outside on my hands and knees in the flowerbeds pulling up Big-Leaf Maple sprouts. Therefore, it seemed fitting to share the parable of the Sower. (from Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23; and Luke 8:4-15) On a grey,…
Springing up to life!
A few years ago, hubby and I picked up a package of lily bulbs at the garden nursery. There were three bulbs in the package. Hubby and I assumed the lilies would grow to be about knee-height, so…
Love sees beyond the surface to what matters most.
I wrote a few months ago about my attempt to overwinter my mums. This is the first time I have ever attempted to overwinter anything. Being Fall mums from the garden nursery, they of course were rootbound and…
Love is peaceable.
Love doesn’t leave prickles in your palms afterwards. I wrote yesterday about tidying up the raspberry vines. It was one of those rare sunny afternoons, so I was wandering around the backyard delighting in springtime joys. I hadn’t…
Love is teachable.
I was wandering the back yard on a rare sunny afternoon, delighting in springtime joys – when I wound up over at the berry garden. Oh, check it out ... the raspberries are coming back to life. Just…
Love covers.
A small patch of these mushrooms sprang up in the grass just out from the kitchen window. I have never seen mushrooms quite like this before. Immediately the passage in Psalm 91:1 came to mind: “He/she who dwells…