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It’s More Than Just a Door to the Garden…

Posted by Barbara Techel
Our three year raised bed garden plan and project came to completion over the weekend with the final addition of the door!

Three years in the making.

One raised garden bed, then two.

Last fall a third.

The anticipation during the cold winter months grew.

For the final phase of the project

still just a dream in our imagination.

And then after all that waiting,

Just like that,

The door was added

And it was complete!

And now I sit

in complete admiration

Starring at this sweet door

made by the skilled and well-worn hands

Of my dear husband.

It’s more than just a door to the garden

It’s an opening to another portal

That came together via a labor of love

And a passion for creativity and nature

and an adventure of gardening

that will provide new lessons from Mother Nature

and help us grow and learn more about ourselves too.

XO

Barb

    

Spring Garden Walk has Me Thinking of Tasha Tudor

Posted by Barbara Techel
Spring Garden Walk has Me Thinking of Tasha Tudor
My dwarf lilac tree full of buds!

“It’s exciting to see things coming up again, plants that you’ve had twenty or thirty years. It’s like seeing an old friend.”
― Tasha Tudor, The Private World of Tasha Tudor

It is has been close to 60 degrees this weekend, though the wind has just shifted putting a bit of a chill in the air again. But ah, yes, that is spring – such a tease it can be!

Today I walked in my landscaped gardens which will be one year old next month. And I couldn’t help but think of Tasha Tudor. I discovered her about five years ago and became utterly fascinated with her way of life. She was a children’s book illustrator, lover of nature, tea, flowers, corgis, goats, birds, and living to the beat of her own drum. She lived a simple life and what some would say was a hard life for there was always something to be done around her property. But that is what made her thrive.

As I walked my gardens I felt the spirit of Tasha. I know I’ll have to get my books out again that I have about her. Even though I’ve read them oodles of times already, I’m feeling called to get lost in her world that I find to this day to be be magical.

Being outside and appreciating all that nature gives us is when I feel the spirit of her swirling in the wind. I could ride high on that feeling forever.

Mr. Finch right outside my writing cottage window

To see the buds blossoming on trees and shrubs just fills me fresh up with such hope – and reminds me of what is truly important. These simple, sweet moments of beauty.

My Cherry Blossom Willow tree should blossom soon
Mr. Squirrel drinking from the bird bath

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