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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…

April 10, 2025Lessons in the Dirt

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…

April 5, 2025Lessons in the Dirt, What is love?

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…

April 4, 2025Lessons in the Dirt, What is love?

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…

April 3, 2025Lessons in the Dirt, What is love?

Their snow is better than my snow.

I woke up this morning to a beautiful world of wintry whiteness outside my windows. As I stood at my kitchen sink fixing breakfast, the thought popped into my head: “Their snow is better than my snow.” It…

February 3, 2025Gratitude, Lessons in the Dirt

Blooming today!

My daughter surprised me by swinging by the house and dropping off this pretty little plant during her lunch break. What a wonderful surprise! I was absolutely delighted! This little flower has brought me so much joy the…

January 31, 2025Lessons in the Dirt

Overwintering

Last October I tagged along with hubby to Home Depot to pick up a couple of packs of fasteners. At the front entrance, the display of mums caught my attention! I was smitten! We wound up bringing two…

January 30, 2025Lessons in the Dirt

Beauty … in the “in-between.”

I stepped out on the front porch early this morning as hubby left for work. All across the front flowerbed little icy crystals sparkled with beauty in the reflection of the house floodlights. It looked like hundreds of…

December 5, 2024Lessons in the Dirt

Luxury Caps

Two weeks ago, I was surprised to discover these mushrooms coming up in the front flowerbed. My Seek Nature App informed me that these are “Luxury Caps.” I was in awe! I have never seen mushrooms such as…

September 25, 2024Lessons in the Dirt

How much yield??

So … hubby and I planted only a few handfuls of wheat seeds. Our wheat patch was quite small, as you can see. And since this was our very first time attempting to grow wheat, hubby and I…

September 15, 2024Lessons in the Dirt