The only guarantee in life is change, blessed change. Thank you for this beautiful gift.
Sun through water
We took our four legged one to the beach, Saturday. It was her first time there with the intent and temperature for swimming. It was the first day we had her outside off leash for any length of time, which wound up being the whole day. She’s been a very calm girl ever since. Pretty…
The sent folder
That sacred space of honest accountability. Have I or haven’t I? The sent folder will tell me. I’m more in my head than in my world. I’m deeply introverted and introspective. Sometimes I will write you a thoughtful letter and come up with all the right things to say and the best way to say…
First flowers
Spring has sprung and colour is returning
Cutting dirt
I’m hardening off many of my plants and several of my direct seeded beds are bursting to life. I got busy with a shovel this week and carved out some keyhole & freestyle garden beds which are now ready to plant. Two years of turning over our sandy soils with plenty of organic materials…
Spring gifts from the Earth
I was cleaning up the yard a couple days ago and trimmed up some branches on one of our tallest maples that had broken when another tree came down on it the winter before last. We have been in our house for almost 2 years now and are working away with the very mature landscaping…
Plant sharing
Yesterday we brought home a big old girl! Someone was putting up a porch and offered a great big rose bush up to the next people who could dig it up. We brought out the shovels, drove to town, and welcomed our newest family member home with holes filled with peat, organic topsoil, worm castings…
The only constant
I know I know one thing, that change is constant. Some days the winds of change are such a blessing of fresh air, some days we hold the comfort of knowing they will come. This is how my yarden looks today. Knowing it’s April means knowing this will be short lived. Thank goodness. The four…
Over wintered veggiesÂ
This cabbage might be small and brown around the edges but it’s alive and growing! Some native claytonia has been running rampant along edges and in sheltered areas all over the yarden. It’s delicious but a little to small to be worth harvesting or considered a crop. I have planted a larger leafed variety along…
Still nights
A bit of snow has come on Winter’s final night to remind us of our northern latitudes and let us know to put down the planting shovels, it’s not time to wake yet.
Homemade healing
There have been and likely will be many articles written about the observation of health benefits related to consuming turmeric. I like to use it in cooking and had just picked up a fresh jar of dry turmeric when my sweetheart took a tumble out on the icy driveway. I decided this was a great…
The audacity of ivy
I feel like I have a lot in common with vines. They never stop reaching, they certainly aren’t for everyone, and they can be torn apart into many pieces and will pick up right where they left off, starting again from wherever they find themselves. I’m embarking on a new project; one involving the…
Things That Give Me Hope 