LITGWM: Present and future lessons

There are few days when I never leave the house.  And today was one of those days.

It was supposed to be a Galentine’s Brunch but the weather was nutty so I cancelled, I didn’t want anyone to get in an accident, and now, I’ll be eating breakfast food for the next week – EVERY MEAL LOL

 

I watched a movie while dozing off on the couch with a cozy blanket.  Then I got to shovel snow.  The beauty and the quiet of the world

 

I worked on the garden some more. Winter sowed some lavender and marigolds.  And I went outside to put the containers in the snow and I stood there in the stillness and the cold.  

 

I dreamt about the spring for a few moments...  But then I stood there in the beauty of the garden just as it is.  The brilliant white and the shades of brown that were once green and full of vibrant color.  I love the colors of spring and summer, but today’s colors were no less beautiful.  

 

There are two thoughts of preparing a garden in the fall.  Everything can be cut back and then in the spring it will be ready to go OR one can leave things and give the birds seeds to eat off the flowers that once bloomed in their beautiful life.  Those stems and sticks hold a place for eggs of butterflies and other insects.  Most years I cut back the flowers and leave the veggie plants.  But I pulled the veggie plants and left the flower plants.  I am not sure why other than I like to try things in the garden and see what happens.  Everyone who has a garden does things the way they do it.  Sometimes they do things for a reason but sometimes people do things because it’s the way their father or grandmother did it.  But not me, I am an accidental gardener. I learn from the garden.  I like the wonder of it. 

 

I love to walk in the grass and to scrub my feet at the end of a glorius day.  To learn how nature works and see the growth in the faithfulness of loving it every day. I love even learning when I am not faithful in loving the garden as I should what happens but it always turns around. I can love it a little more and turn it around. 

I learn the value of love in the garden.

Today I felt so comfortable and loved in my own house.  There is such peace here.  I was going to leave and changed my mind. The world will continue to go on while I snuggle and enjoy the peace of my home.  

 

I’m dreaming of the spring and summer – the hope of what is to come. While basking in the perfection of today.