How does your garden grow?

19 Sunday May 2013

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Sore muscles and sunburned arms
Are worth the satisfaction
Of weeded beds and layered mulch;
Colorful blooms and splashes of
lime green grasses and cool blue hostas in the shade of new leaves on the trees.

Calm after the storm

02 Saturday Jun 2012

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gratitude

This morning dawns at 61 degrees with sky as blue as the sparkling glass that I collect on my window ledge,
Reminding me of the cool crisp dew- drenched mornings of my childhood.
I could wish for an un-ending summer like this
But I am in the land of heat and humidity
So I will be grateful for this day and
revel in the need for a sweater.

Open-faced Tulip

03 Tuesday Apr 2012

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gratitude, spring

Tulips from my yard were
Closed tight against the spring frost
When I picked them this morning.
Now in the warmth
Their faces open big as plates
and turn toward me
Like eager children.

Misty Morning

25 Sunday Mar 2012

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gratitude, prayer, Sunday

Safe

22 Thursday Mar 2012

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death, family, gratitude, home, Lent, prayer

A motorcycle rests on its side; a semi blocks the lane.
Paramedics huddle while emergency vehicles scream for an opening through traffic snarled for miles.
Temporarily inconvenienced, I will go home and eat Chinese takeout with my family
While someone else’s evening spirals into horror with a squeal of a tire and a blindsided swerve.

Venus and Saturn

17 Saturday Mar 2012

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gratitude, pets, spring, walks

The two of us and the dog
Walk homeward at dusk.
Toward planets setting to the west
In the darkening sky.

New buds, old stones

16 Friday Mar 2012

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gratitude, spring

Grey stone backdrop to a flurry of pink

Snow {drops}

08 Thursday Mar 2012

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gratitude, Lent, spring, Winter

Only once this winter
was the yard blanketed with snow,
On All Saint’s Eve.
I miss the muffled softness of deep peaceful drifts.
But in this strange winter that wasn’t,
Snowdrops will have to do.