Good Morning Sunflower

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It's what sunflowers do." Helen Keller

Morning Light Show

Let us walk in the light of the Lord. Isaiah 2:5

These apples have a deep purple hue in the early morning light, underscored by the perky orange nasturtiums hanging out below reaching up to snag one.

Love that morning light right after dawn. Brings out the whimsy in me.

What did the carrot say to the wheat? Lettuce rest, I'm feeling beet. - Shel Silverstein 

Thinning carrots this past weekend so the ones left in the ground will have a chance to really grow like a carrot! But these little tiny seedlings are just as yummy in a salad ... sweet and crunchy, bite-sized, full of flavor and beautiful in any dish. Nothing from the garden goes to waste!

The Heart of a Radish

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul. --Alfred Austin

Gardens are full of surprises. Every seed that goes in the ground has the potential for amazement. Or to touch our hearts. This sweet, little radish fulfilled its potential.

Pumpkins on the Way

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.          -- Henry David Thoreau

What do I love about squash blossoms? Their color. Their enormity. Their perfect face that's like a giant beacon that says, "Let me tell you what's coming." And knowing that in the cool, crisp days of fall I'll have beautiful, round orange orbs full of possibilities. 

Already planning for my Halloween jack-o-lantern. 

Berry, berry good.

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

--Wendell Berry

Red, ripe raspberries and deep purple blackberries, and ruby red boysenberries every morning in the berry patch. In my pajamas, out in the patch, picking berries off the vine, fingers red, popping berries into my mouth, juice dripping down my chin. Life is good!

A Sentry for My Chickens

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God. Ecclesiastes 3:11-13

My chickens live in a coop that sits under a beautiful oak tree in the midst of lush ground cover and Mexican, Hummingbird and Jerusalem sage. The ground is so fertile, that the plants have grown through the chicken wire and into the coop. A delicious treat for Ethel and Carolyn - my girls.
I found a chicken basket somewhere that I stuck outside the coop just for fun.
Now, it stands sentry, a comb of sage it's Galea.
That makes me smile.