Support Circle!
A pop of bold vivid color on a grey, overcast, chilly day. This makes me so happy! My daughter gave me a package of yellow and a package of pink gladiolus bulbs for Mother’s Day last year. The…
The glory that is to be revealed
I was headed down the back deck steps with the watering can, to take some water over to the raspberries … when the gladiolus caught my eye! The sun was coming up right behind it, and the gladiolus…
What is your life? It is but a raspberry vine …
The temperatures climbed up into the 90’s this week. Hubby and I do not have a soaker hose in the berry garden, so in the coolness of the early morning I carried several watering cans over to water…
When you feel chewed up by life
Some bug has taken up residence on my Hoopes rose this summer and has been eating the leaves to smithereens. Here you can see the chewed up leaves … I really liked this photo of the raindrops on…
Blooming tenaciously!
In spite of the setback of having their leaves eaten off by the deer, the hostas are blooming tenaciously! I find this to be so inspiring! In life we go through seasons and times when it feels as…
Go … and replicate yourself.
Growing alongside the raspberries in my garden are a couple of strawberry plants. This strawberry plant here is one which hubby and I purchased three years ago from a fancy schmancy garden nursery. Much to my surprise this…
Raspberry Lessons: Parenting!
As I was picking raspberries I came across this grouping of berries up underneath the vines and leaves. My immediate “blink” reaction was: That’s just like parenting! These berries are not ready to be picked yet. They are…
Raspberry Lessons: High and lofty!
I was out in the garden picking raspberries in the cool quiet of the early morning. As I gazed up at the highest raspberries reaching for the sky … the thought suddenly struck me: those raspberries way up…
Raspberry Lessons: When people aren’t exactly what you expect.
Hubby and I purchased our raspberry plants several years ago. It was the middle of the winter, and Home Depot had little cardboard tubes of raspberries, blueberries, and strawberries for sale just outside the front entrance. Hubby and…
Blueberry lessons!
What better thing to do on a Saturday morning than to go blueberry picking! Hubby and I arrived at the U-pick farm bright and early. Hardly anyone else was there. We grabbed our buckets and checked the sign…