This morning rather grey and cool-ish has a definite settling of fall in the air.
\nThe familiar stiffness in my hands and feet, the ache of overwork and not enough
\ngentle stretch also usher in this change in temperatures.
\nRegardless of threatening almost icy droplets from the sky,\u00a0 I step out for a brief walk among what is left of the garden.
\nSome things showing obvious signs of being touched by the frost, have curled themselves up in crispy cringes and shivers.
\nThe pine trees have dropped so many golden\/orange needles that they have carpeted the drive, and almost completely covered the surface of the pond in fall like splendour.\u00a0\u00a0 Many of the gardens look thin and patchy with much soil showing,\u00a0 not the way I like it.\u00a0 Yet through quiet observance I can spot a few fellows just now getting their flower heads ready to burst forth.\u00a0 Amazing really, nature and it\u2019s sense of timing.
\nThere is a large patch of hydrangea at the back fence, that I have doubts will get to showing white, as the others have done.\u00a0 It seems suspended in time, just lightly green,\u00a0 cascading down from the fence line under the great pine and blue spruce.\u00a0 As the squirrels scurry around and through in their busy gatherings, denoting the coming of cold.\u00a0 Yet she sits and smiles,\u00a0 in subtle patience ..\u00a0 all in good time.
\nWhen I am at the kitchen sink, I smile out at this late blooming beauty, and ground myself in her willingness to hold her own.<\/p>\n
I have just finished a wonderful book, that I stayed with for longer than was probably necessary to just read it,\u00a0 but in who\u2019s pages I was so wonderfully enthralled.\u00a0 No One Gardens Alone: A Life of Elizabeth Lawrence by Emily Herring Wilson<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 A book I was directed to by another book, which I also found through the pages of another book.\u00a0 That is absolute perfection for me! When I realize it is no longer morning, and I have frittered away time,\u00a0 I take up my camera, exchange my fuzzy slippers for flip-flops (there\u2019s no snow yet!) and take to a wander outside. In fact,\u00a0 preferably my garden gate is closed. as when it is time.. to the earth\u00a0 \u2665<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This morning rather grey and cool-ish has a definite settling of fall in the air. The familiar stiffness in my hands and feet, the ache of overwork and not enough gentle stretch also usher in this change in temperatures. Regardless…
\nIt is a fantastically well-researched biography of just a lovely, lovely woman, her garden and the friendships that grew through her never-ending interest in horticulture.
\nExcept that when I have finished it , I am at once immediately lost down the rabbit hole of researching my next read.\u00a0 Of writers and gardeners, designers, creators and strong intelligent women, who\u2019s stories capture me completely.<\/p>\n
\nAs I greet what is left of my flowers, I smile an awkward smile at them, and offer up my apologies that I am not the kind of gardener that I have just been reading about.\u00a0 Instead of proper plant names, most times they are referred to as the pink ones, and those yellow thingy\u2019s.\u00a0 Also unlike the lovely Elizabeth, rarely do I invite visitors in, except in this way.
\nToday my most welcome visitors are the little chick-a-dees, who are peeping from a branch just above my head. \u00a0The baby cardinals, and Mr. Blue, who I know likes to hear, he is beautiful and so I tell him often, as this indeed makes us both happy.
\nDespite what I have written, I am sure visitors here might say \u2013 \u2018Really these are your gardens?
\nThey\u2019re not so great. \u2018
\nTrue, they are often wild and unkempt, but that is precisely how I love them, and
\nquite possibly..\u00a0 why.<\/p>\n
\nIt is the privacy,
\nthe sanctity of my own garden that reminds me
\nhow easy it is to let go of thoughts
\nof measuring up,
\nor comparing
\naccomplishments and standing.
\nIt is sometimes my closing off of
\nthe outside world.
\nIt is my refuge.
\nFor it is here,
\nwe each, the flowers, the wildlife and I
\nwe stand our own ground\u2026
\nin beauty and peace,
\nin our own time.
\nwe shine in varied hues and bow
\nin subtle grace
\nwe are blessed by sunshine and rain
\nand take them
\nas they come,
\nwe appreciate our place
\nin the
\nhere and
\nnow
\nand we bathe
\nin
\ngratitude
\nand open to
\nunderstanding<\/p>\n
\nthere is comfort
\nin knowing
\nit can indeed
\nbe a blessing
\nin quietly surrendering
\nagain<\/p>\n
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