These are the things making me happy these days:
The other day, I was walking in my neighborhood in search of a garage sale announced (very largely, I might add) at the mouth of my street. Halfway up the alleged garage sale street , a girl and her mom sat in their front yard.
"Hi!" the girl said.
"Hi," I said. I turned to her mom. "Do you know anything about a garage sale?"
"Sorry. Haven't seen anything."
The little girl ran up to me and gave me a delicate lavender flower. "Here."
"Thank you." At that point, I noticed that these flowers covered their front yard.
"They popped up last year. I transplanted them to the corner and told my husband not to mow them. They must've reseeded because here they are again."
I stood in awe of my gift, so easily given. The girl's mother and I chatted for another minute, then I left in search of the garage sale. I never found the sale, but I wandered happily with my flower, smiling at it. When I got home, I pressed it in a book with wax paper. This little girl had received a surprise gift in a yard full of flowers, and her inclination was to share her treasure.
I have tomatoes in my gardent!
Everyday I visit them, cooing them to ripeness. I also have peppers, strawberries, rosemary and basil. The cilantro has taken over. It's gone crazy!
I have random flowers growing in my backyard.
It may be a weed, but it's pretty all the same.
My trees are blooming, rejoicing in the warmth and sunlight.
And that's what's making me happy.
Beautiful story.
I'm jealous of the tomatoes. It just got warm enough here to put some starter plants in the ground.
... over on Zimbio and commented there. Tomatoes though. Ohhhhhh... jealous in NY.
. . . that you talk and coo at your tomato plant. so cute, you are!
That is so sweet. I love when little kids give flowers out of the pure goodness of their heart.
I just took a bunch of pictures of those flowers. Zane brought me some the other day when we were laying out on the deck enjoying the nice weather (of course today it's 34 and I want a fire!) but the other day it was over 70.
Anyway, he brought me dandelions, too. Which I love. I didn't press them, but I squished the color of of them onto my prayer book. :)
I have been composing a blog post about this very same thing in my head. (For the last three months. I wonder if it'll ever see the light of day. ??)
I find myself tending to think that only the things the cost are the things that have worth. Cost and worth are completely different things.
So fun to read your examples of the things that you find worthy, things that you barely, if at all, had to pay for.
How's the lasagna gardening going?
I'm getting ready to lay out my spring layers and have the neighborhood think I am a crazy cardboard box collecting lady. It's better than collecting stray cats, that's all I can say. ;)
Alas, no lasagna gardening going on this year.
I did all my veggies and herbs in containers. I'm dreaming of the year when I'll turn a section of our backyard into a garden, but it'll take a lot of tilling and lasagna--you know Texas clay! Beside that, we'd have to cut a tree down. We have no place in our yard without shade. I'm not ready to cut a beloved tree down.
I'll be working in my little yard today...so nice to be able to do that.
thanks heather. i needed that visual evidence that warmth is coming. it's been snowing here the last several days and freezing cold. it's enough to make you want to cry. but then i visit here, and it turns out that the things making you happy make me happy too. thanks for sharing this little flower of a post with me.
Aren't growing things cool? They make me happy, too.
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