Oct 16, 2009 | Garden Prayer, growing the spirit, Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – October 16 If you’re not feeling tip top – not absolutely depressed, mind you, but just a bit blue and not-quite-up-to-snuff – I recommend the following: exercise, prayer and homemade soup. It was grey, cold and damp today, and although nothing...
Oct 15, 2009 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – October 15 I’m always willing to get drunk on garden color, from the yellow spring daffodils to the brilliant annuals in August. In the fall, however, colorful foliage not only catches my eye, but my heart as well. We know that in a few weeks...
Oct 14, 2009 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – October 14 Yesterday I wrote about endings and beginnings, and today this subject is right in my face. A frost is predicted tonight, and until this afternoon, I hadn’t yet brought all of my plants inside. So I scrambled around looking for the...
Oct 13, 2009 | growing the spirit, Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – October 13 I really thought that this post would be about fall color…I took photos and organized my thoughts about late-season foliage. But life intervened, and here I am, blogging about endings and beginnings. These three things happened...
Oct 12, 2009 | Garden Celebrations, Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – October 12 This morning we drove home to Poison Ivy Acres. Noah and Wan Yi’s wedding was delightful, and it was nice to stay at the lovely home of Alice & Burt Swersey. Burt gave me several plants from his nursery, causing my husband to claim...
Oct 11, 2009 | Garden Celebrations, growing the spirit, Life's Gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – October 11 It is well past midnight and after an evening of dancing, cheering, hugging and tearing up I am too spent to write much except this: to be able to celebrate friends, family, faith, love, and yes, flowers, is such a gift. I’m...
