Spring is officially here – and (for me) that means endless hours of digging and spreading soil, arranging plants and seeds and hoping against hope that this season will not face the wrath of Oklahoma’s temperamental proclivities. It could hail in June… we could have gusts of wind so strong they blow away oversized ceramic […]
Category: Nature
A Growth Mindset in the Wake of Disappointment
I’ve had a disheartening week. My garden… my pride and joy… has been attacked by squash vine borers. I am a novice gardener, and I wasn’t aware that they even existed until I noticed that my gorgeous spaghetti squash plant, which I had grown from seed and carefully nurtured, was looking somewhat brown and wilted […]
The Beauty of Slowing Down
Yesterday, my husband and I took our canoe to a nearby lake that is popular with campers and boaters alike. We’ve been there many times – sometimes the waters are still and silent, but other times there’s been motorboats and jet skis whizzing everywhere. All of us have a great time, regardless of our mode […]
The Unexpected Face of Compassion
A couple of months ago, I was cleaning up our yard when I encountered something that deeply saddened me. A tiny deformed baby bird was lying dead, a few feet from a nest that a robin had built on the porch light of our back porch many moons ago. This nest has been used every […]
Trimming the Branches
This morning, I took on the arduous task of trimming back my cherry tomato plant. It’s been needing a trim for a long time, and was starting to take over the greenhouse deck, the strawberry plants, the lemon cucumber plant, and was dangerously encroaching on spaghetti squash territory. I have been frantically harvesting those sweet […]