Eating My Words...

Remember when I was uninspired??  Well, THIS:

 inspires me!!  

When I saw this photo I HAD to find a place to save it for future reference.   I dream of prolific, beautiful, creative gardens!

"To dig one's own spade into one's own earth! Has life anything better to offer than this?"-- Beverley Nichols

Here my little gardening buddy and I are at work on the beginnings of this year's Garden.  I finished the tomato planting yesterday but saved our exciting experimental seeds for a day when Georgie was home with me.  I believe I have a budding horticulturist on my hands.  She loves it!

Building mounds for our first watermelon plants

Crimson Sweet...we're told this variety grows well here.

Pushing them in about 1/2" deep
We planted pumpkins, corn and onions for the first time as well.   We'll see how it goes!!

If you've ever debated gardening but are afraid of failure, here's

another quote just for you.  It became my gardening philosophy last year when after quite a few failures I began to wonder why I do this every year.  Because I'm addicted, I love getting dirty, it feels romantic to me and because:

"There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments." 

-- Janet Kilburn Phillips

IT IS HERE!

Songbirds are singing, a subtle breeze is blowing and my windows are open to hear, smell and see it all.  Spring is finally here!   The tiny tip of a purple Iris greeted me this morning as I ran out the door to my workout class.  By the end of the afternoon nearly the entire bud has emerged from its deep green encasement.   I've peeked my head out to look at it at least 10 times today.  I hung clothes on the line to dry and made bread with my own little fairy in a spritely green dress.  My skin is perfectly sweaty.  I didn't know that perfect and sweaty could co-exist but I'm finding that, today, it can.  Don't you just love days when life seems...magical!  I watched a beautifully artistic movie last night and I think that set the tone.  Can you tell I am feeling a little dreamy?  I can't help but see beauty everywhere today.  I hope this lasts.