Lessons in the Dirt

I had just walked out to the road to drop a letter in the mailbox.   Overhanging the mailbox were masses of graceful blossom-chains from the nearby Big-Leaf Maple!   Wow!  God’s creation is amazing! On my way back to…

Matthew 9:37-38 – “Jesus said to His disciples, ‘The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.  Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into His harvest field.’” We read this verse … and…

I jabbed my hand with a nail this morning as I was out in the new garden plot clearing away weeds and rocks. It is a very strange thing to have your palm punctured with a nail ...…

It is a lot of work to break ground for a new garden plot!  Especially if your tools are just a shovel and a hoe. 30 minutes into shoveling, your legs begin to feel like jelly.  You realize…

It’s almost garden-planting time!  So off we went to Home Depot to get a few seeds.  Our garden plot is small, so we only needed a few seeds. I stood there … in front of the seed display…

These are each completely different seeds.  They produce completely different fruit.   Yet they are all part of the same family.  They are all “vine” plants.  (“Cucurbit” or “Cucurbitaceae” family) From the left to the right:  pumpkin, cucumber, zucchini,…

Upon moving into our home a couple of years ago we decided to relocate a small rosemary plant to a far corner of the backyard where an unsightly stump rested.  The location was a lovely sunny spot ……

When we moved into our home a couple of years ago there was, in the far corner of the backyard, a large unsightly stump.  This particular corner of the backyard was a lovely sunny spot.   Rosemary would be…