I’ve been wondering how we will fare with the drought in large portion of the nation this year. In looking over a past article (2006-linked in the title) on this, I had one of my first “blogstyle” entries from the old 1999 website: (Oct. 10 ’99) I could say something silly like “Time flies”, but […]
garden thoughts
Thoughts for an Autumn Day
..and a few pictures from my garden…. Isn’t it just the most exhilarating thing to be alive in this golden autumn, while flower borders are still rich and full of bloom as they can be, and be able to bridge the thought of a flowerless winter by planning and scheming and dreaming of the spring […]
Thoughts
“Like a big mountain, a small garden stimulates, restores, and delights us, just as it poses challenges, promotes mastery, provides exercise and relieves monotony.”~ The Power of Place, Winifred Gallagher Summer has now thrown open her emerald doors. Every part of the landscape is profuse in leaves and flowers, and “green-robed senators of mighty woods” […]
Autumn Thoughts
For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scatter.Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson winter is an etching,spring a watercolor,summer an oil painting,and autumn a mosaic of them all.~Stanley Horowitz Everyone […]
Must Our Winter Be One of Discontent?
Is our present day one of better quality of life? In many ways, yes, but somehow we largely have lost the gift of finding our contentment in the everyday. I do not know why this is, exactly, but I do believe it is a widespread phenomenon of our society. Most likely the development of the […]
Garden Prayer
Autumn Prayer Be the Gardener of my Soul Spirit of the living God, be the Gardener of my soul. For so long I have been waiting, silent and still – experiencing a winter of the soul. But now, in the strong name of Jesus Christ, I dare to ask: Clear away the dead growth of […]
