Showing posts with label get away. Show all posts
Showing posts with label get away. Show all posts

11.30.2021

True Colors

 

Suddenly, fall is almost finished on our one Kentucky acre. 
This year's color change was slow to arrive, but just before they fell, 
the leaves put on a dazzling show of color. 


Just like every year, sunlight and 
temperature changes signaled chlorophyll to stop its work. 


And the greens of summer faded away while I was busy carving 
pumpkins and puzzling out costumes.


what the leaves packed in during their spring-and-summer lives 
finally surfaced to create ...


... a grand spectacle of fall color pointing to the 
glorious nature of a wise and extravagant Creator. 

* photo taken on a Smoky Mountain getaway

It might be a life lesson, whispered to anyone  
with an ear to hear






6.19.2021

When Inspiration Strikes

Clean out and throw away!
Okay, lots of times we give away instead of throw away. 
I'm not sure Goodwill appreciates it, but that's not the point. 
It's a hard fact that we can't keep adding to our nest 
without pushing some stuff over the edge and into a Goodwill bin.

And so, please consider the wagon in the photo. 
This rusty Radio Flyer's done its time here on our one acre. It's hauled plants, 
kids, weapons of Nerf warfare, and more plants. 
During the spring greenhouse clean-up, 
I declared it finished ... mort ... trash-day fodder.
"Take it to the garbage," I instructed my doubtful crew of two. 

The beat-up wagon spent quite a few weeks upended near the garbage cans  
waiting for a final trip, this time for roadside collection.
But then, just in time—inspiration struck. 
 
 And now it has a new life as garden hardscape.

* * *
Other inspirational sights from our getaway to Madison, Indiana: 

I'd like to replicate this shutter's rubbed-off, old blue on our upcoming garden gate.


We have a mostly-forgotten, single oar to add to the playground platform. 
I just need a good slogan ... 
send suggestions!


This canvas placed in the top three items we considered buying as 
 an anniversary gift to ourselves. 


The arc created by these doortops is what I'd like in a garden gate. 
Side note: Doors are unreasonably expensive right now.

* * *
And a final photo of us on our thirty-third anniversary -


We stayed at the Iron Gate Inn and are happy to highly recommend it.
They provided comfy accommodations and an excellent breakfast. 
This ponderable message was just inside the door—







7.17.2020

Summer Snapshots


The pandemic season may have kept me out 
of the garden centers, but my mailbox has done 
a brisk business. Park Seed Company provided 
wonderful seed packets in early spring. 
The entire process of planting and watering provided 
the perfect distraction from virus droplets, 
un-flattened curves, and
the mask/no-mask debate. 
And look at just two of the rewards of that labor: 


This little stripey gourd is from last fall's leftovers.

We're enjoying lots of family gatherings.
Our backyard has never seemed more like a safe haven 
than it does now. 

But we're going out into the wide world soon, 
if we can only remember how to vacation out there.
 I found this reminder from 2015:

My family has changed so drastically since this vacation 
photo was taken. Instead of five, we are nine. 
And now I'm not the only female among men—
I'm joined by three amazing lovelies. 
Together, I think we balance out the group well. 
Grandchildren provide endless entertainment, 
hugs, and giggles—the biggest upgrade of all.

Read the vacation blog post from 2015 here.