Strawberries – My Foes
This year, in my new garden, the strawberry plants enticed me with the thoughts of their delicious, juicy, red berries. They sang in my ears in their sweet sing-song voices as I planned the garden telling me – “this year …
The Beauty of Rain
There are two things I love about spring, the first is watching the plants wake up from their winter sleep. The second is the rain. It usually rains a lot in Seattle this time of year, but this spring has …
The Lilies Are Lurking
I was standing on my deck in front of a one of my planters, a couple of days ago, looking over the baby plants and making sure the new seeds had enough moisture. All of the sudden something caught the …
Tagged with: Fear, Garden Diary, Garden Project, Garden Stories, Growing Plants, Hope, Lilies, Lily, Pandemic, Plant Stories, Plants, Relationships with Plants, Urban Gardening
The Chorus Begins to Rise
Peas are the first seeds I plant in the early spring. I carefully contemplate the timing of their conception, waiting a few days and pouring over the long-range forecast to make sure I pick the proper time. Some years I …
Tagged with: Garden Project, Growing Food, Growing Peas, Pea Season, Peas, Plant Personalities, Spring Gardens, springtime, Urban Gardening
Garden Beds
This year, I started my garden project with life experience, a semi flat space in the yard and a garden hose that didn’t quite reach to the lawn. My yard was less than ideal, with lower than optimal levels of …
2X4X6X8 – Building Things
My sweetheart and I have a running joke. “I could build it out of 2X4s!” I will say loudly with a big bright smile. It’s the answer to all and any question that remotely has to do with building things. …
Plant Babies – Little Signs of Hope
I have plant babies!! Their tiny green shoots peeking out from the dark earth, shyly unfurling, expanding, and then opening to the sunshine. They remind me of Broadway stars, arms stretched out as if to say – here I am, …
Tagged with: Covid-19, Gardening, Hope, Little Signs of Hope, Magic, plant babies, Renewal, Ritual, Seattle, Signs of Spring, Spring, Spring Gardens, springtime, Urban Gardening
Job Loyalty
Money is the number one thing we revere in this country. If you are lucky enough to have money you have access, you have status, you have security. A job brings money and if you are not rich it is …
Art Therapy
When I started my journey away from corporate retail toward graduate studies to be a therapist, I wanted to incorporate my art and mentoring into my next profession. It turned out there was an Art Therapy program in my home …
Gratitudes to the President – Project End
In mid-March I ended this project called Gratitudes to the President. I became overwhelmed by the process and parameters I set for myself and I needed to let it go. I was searching daily for some good in the political …