Tag Archives: garden

Sep6

follow the sun.

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walking downtown each day

passing by this house/garden

that seems to come into being

overnight

 yet

vine

by

vine

and

stem

by

stem

with

sweat

and

time

and

sun

and

rain

and

soil

and

wind

and

toil

and

finally

a lot of

pure love

then one day

i look way up

 see shining giants

as big as the house

as bright as the sun

 stand proudly in front

this friendly gentleman

has found his home in his garden

has found his joy in this bright beauty

has found delight in sharing it all with the world.

 

“the flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days.”

– robert leighton

Apr11

kinder-garden.

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jane

today the kinder saw the space where they will create their garden.

 

—

“why try to explain miracles to your children when you can have them plant a garden?”

-*janet kilburn phillips

*Janet is a gardener who found that she had to employ a growth mindset when she moved to the United States from England. She had previously been creating English cottage gardens but encountered challenges when she tried to grow them in a drastically different climate and in heavy clay soil. After experimenting with her gardens she created a CD called English Cottage Gardening — American Style. She adapted and persevered and found a new way to succeed at something that she loved.

 

 

Mar26

the arts of peace.

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not me, nor my garden

but he and i have similar attitudes

and this warmer weather

really has me wanting to get my garden going

then just stand back

and take it all in. 

(hello to claude monet, at giverny gardens in 1923, perhaps thinking about painting it)

—

“to plant a garden is the chief of the arts of peace.”

~ mary stewart

Jan21

riotous.

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warmth and soul-seeking

winter below the surface

life continues on.

—

“and don’t think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. it’s quiet down there but the roots are riotous.”

-rumi

 

 

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photo credit: science hub  (nodules on the roots of the white clover)

Oct5

on the farm.

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the kinder visited the farm today

met farmers megan and amy

said hello to the animals

had a tractor ride

saw the community garden

walked into the pumpkin patch

said thank you to the land and the plants

for making and sharing the pumpkins with us

they’ll give back

by planting the seeds from a pumpkin

to make new pumpkins at school

 said thank you to the farmers

who taught us so much

who day in and day out

make all of the magic happen.

 

—

“we have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.”

-wendell berry

Aug28

enthusiasm.

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found these two hanging out amidst the clover

 seven+ months until st. patrick’s day

 they started celebrating a bit early

while they look a little worn

it doesn’t seem to matter.

—

“years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.”

– samuel ulman

 

Aug22

goat in the garden.

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it’s not often that one happens upon a goat riding a bicycle in a garden
but when i did
i knew how i would love to find a goat riding a bicycle in my garden.
—
“ i saw goats. a party can’t be all bad when you have goats,” lucy said.”
― Mary Jane Hathaway,  Persuasion, Captain Wenworth and Cracklin’ Cornbread
Mar21

listen, earth sings.

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May be an image of flower, nature and body of water
 Claude Monet’s gardens in Giverny, France
 “Spring has returned again.
The Earth is like a child
that knows poems by heart;
so many poems, so many verses,
patient toil winning her prizes at last.
Strict, the old teacher.
We loved the whiteness in the old
gentleman’s beard,
its bright snow.
Now when we ask what the green,
what the blue is,
Earth knows the answer,
has learned it.
She knows.
Earth, you’re on holiday,
lucky one: play now!
Play with us children!
We’ll try to catch you.
Glad, joyous Earth!
The gladdest must win.
Every lesson the old teacher
taught her,
all that is printed in roots
and laborious stems:
now she sings it!
Listen, Earth sings.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
—
“The inspiration for this sonnet came from
a visit to Ronda, in southern Spain, in the
winter of 1912-13. Rilke had overheard a
group of schoolchildren singing in the Convent
of Santo Domingo, accompanied only by a
triangle and tambourine. He didn’t know what
their song meant, but the light-hearted
animation of their singing is reflected in the
cadences of the second and third stanzas.”
—
on international poetry day
Jun6

bursting.

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on the 100th anniversary

of this incredible peony garden

with 270+ varieties

the beauty goes on and on

leaving it impossible to pick a favorite.

 

—

“in june as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day.

no man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.”

-aldo leopold

 

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w.e. upjohn peony garden, nichols arboretum, ann arbor, mi, usa – june 2022

Apr23

seed sampler.

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what a wonderful collaboration between the library and local seed organizations

once again showing how important a library is to a community

“inside every seed is the potential for an incredible harvest.”

-farrah gray