Color

The garden is so full of color!  It has become my palette for creating art. And, as you can see, there is a blending of art and garden - it is an interactive process.

Connected

I've been taking some pictures of the garden as I get ready to start working in my studio again. There are so many beautiful plants and I'm amazed that almost everything flowers at some point! I've been watering every morning so everything is hanging in there in this heat - and mostly I've been able to use water from the rain barrels. But I ran out today, so I hope it rains soon!


I love being in the garden in the morning - it's so cool and refreshing.  I don't feel like my day is really real unless I've been able to get out and work for a couple of hours.  Now that it's so hot I try to be outside by around 6:00 a.m.  Working in the garden is like meditation for me - it's not really work, it's like garden therapy!  I don't even really care what I'm doing - I just like being there.  There is always something creative to do and it just feels good to connect with the earth and connect with where food actually comes from.  I like knowing what the plants look like in the ground and what the flowers for each vegetable and fruit are.  It just makes me feel more connected somehow - not just to food, but to everything.

If you want to be happy for an hour, get drunk;
If you want to be happy for three days, get married;
If you want to be happy forever, make a garden. - Chinese Proverb

Strawberries are all finished and we picked - and ate, of course - the first of the raspberries.  Everything from the greenhouse is now in the ground and am getting tomato cages around all the tomatoes today.  It finally rained so all the plants are very happy!

I love my morning routine - up early to meditate, then drink tea and read on the back porch.  After that I spend several hours in the garden.  Everything seems to fall in place for the rest of the day with such a lovely beginning!

The strawberries are ripe and ready to eat!  I can hardly keep up with picking and eating them!  We have tons of rhubarb, so it's strawberry-rhubarb pie time.