Spring

I just spent the better part of the day out in the garden. What a lovely day. I weeded and planted and put fertilizer on all of the little seedlings that are taking root. My herbs from last year all seem to have made it through the very long winter, and are now bursting out of the ground with renewed strength!

I worked in the flower beds too and even cut a bouquet of lilacs and bleeding hearts for the table. It smells so yummy. Lilacs have to be one of natures most wonderful scents.....along with iris and jasmine and pansies and.....well you see what I mean.

When things seem a bit bleak, or life just isn't treating you quite right, a trip to the garden seems to make things a little better. The feel of the dirt between your toes and the life growing right in front of your eyes makes all the cares of this world fade away for a time and makes you smile.

I may have to spend a little more time out in my garden!