Perception

My last post was on the heavy side. Since I like to mix things up, I thought I would post another funny to counter the heavy. Today is March 19th. The windchill outside is below zero. Spring, WHERE ARE YOU!!! In the spirit of positive thinking, I am holding faith that spring is mere days away. In honor of spring, I have been researching planting and gardening ideas. 

I have a son who loves cactus and succulents. He actually collects them, or at least tries. Believe it or not, we have a cactus eating cat! You heard that right. My cat eats all plants, including cactus. This has caused my plant loving household to become plant barren as he has gotten deathly sick off of several of the plants he ingested. Being plant lovers without the ability to grow houseplants is depressing. Being plant lovers not able to have houseplants in a state that has an outside growing season of what feels like two months is even more depressing! Still, we do what we can and that means grow as much as we can while we can!

I was researching plants for my garden, flowers for Darling Daughter's Fairy Flower Garden, and hardy plants for my cactus/succulent loving son. I came upon a site that had these awesome spherical succulent collections. I became intrigued, engulfed, obsessed in figuring out how to grow some for our patio this year. I was so fully engaged in the process of learning how to make them, I didn't notice the name they were given. Actually, I had read the name many times, it just never struck my funny bone until I stepped away from the page to get some coffee and sat back down. At that moment my perception of the name changed and I had a laugh-out-loud-alone-with-self moment. I had spent the last twenty minutes with my face inches away from Succulent Balls! Ha ha ha! (click link for awesome garden idea)

Get it? 

No?

Did you click the link?

Now do you get it?

Never mind. 
(sporting sheepish grin as I slink away)

☺

Fairy-est

Crystal Ball,

Crystal Ball,

Do tell all.

Who's the fairy-est of them all?

Welcome to our fairy garden!

M's Fairy Garden

cupboard

seating for four

shh... I see one now!

welcome!

The boys abandoned the sandbox below the swing set long ago.

After years of trucks and shovels excavating the prime real estate,

Darling Daughter and I thought it was time to develop.

No high rises here! We created a welcoming little neighborhood for flowers, bunnies and fairies! Shh... I think I see one now!

Nothing to say - Monday

 It's Monday.

Not much to say.

 I'll leave it up to others today.

Faith makes things possible, not easy.  ~Author Unknown

If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished? ~Rumi

The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses.  ~Hanna Rion

Wascally Wabbit

A garden saga.

This is my little garden.

I installed a fence due to critter chomping issues.

Went out to water this early morn when

lo and behold

a wee little bunny popped out of the fence.

Drat!!!

This is what my blessed beans look like.

All chewed off.

 What's the matter picky bunny?

Snow peas not your thing?

 How about some blasted pepper plant,

you naughty little fella?

No sooner did I start watering when

in roll some thunder clouds.

Double Drat!

Murphy's Law plagues my life!

I stand.

Contemplating.

How many more plants and seeds do I want to keep replacing?

This is not the first time I have had this happen.

Oh no.

Not at all.

Replenishing my barren plots is taking a toll on my wallet.

So much for gardening saving on food bills!

So I stand and contemplate.

What would keep the rabbits out?

Why did the fence not work?

Should I plant something different?
Should I abandon the garden altogether?

I turn around to walk back to the house.

Guess who was watching me as I stood contemplating?

Yup. 

You guessed it.

 That Wascally Wabbit.

She is in my daughter's fairy garden below the swingset.

Darling daughter is thrilled that there is a mama and baby living in her garden.

They bask and roll and rest (and obviously watch).

Baby had jumped away by the time I retrieved my camera

but it was quite the surprise to turn around and see two bunnies watching me

try to figure out how to keep them out!!!

Wonder what they were thinking?

Probably something on the lines of, "Silly lady! You can't keep us out!"

Ha!

My newest ammo after some google research.

Off to the garden store I go.

I need me some plants and seeds!

(My backup plan is to strip my furry four legged friends of their fur to spread around the beds. Any other suggestions? Keep in mind we are a violence free household.)

Simplicity

Do you know what this is?

I bet you don't!

I bet most of you have never seen one of these.

I hadn't either until I planted my first vegetable garden a few years ago.

I am in love with growing things but

not so in love with all the rules of gardening.

I tend to be a

fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants

kind of gardener.

I do what I can when I can.

Plant what I want where I want it.

If it grows, it grows.

If it fails, another lesson learned.

What you see pictured above

is the bloom from leaf lettuce allowed to go to seed.

Or should I say, ignored for too long!!!

 

Isn't it lovely???

I was so taken by the simple beauty of it.

The delicate stems and buds.

The gentle yellow bursting at the tips.

This little flower is less than a centimeter wide.

All that glory in such a tiny little package.

It brought such a smile to my face

that I harvested a bunch

brought it into the house

and put it in a lovely vase.

Simple Beauty

Discovered by letting go.

Living in the moment.

 

 

 

That is what I wish for all of you this weekend.

Let go.

Live in the moment.
Enjoy the simple beauty life has to offer.