Sitting with the Cabbages
It was 32-degrees this morning, still too cold to transplant the vegetable starts I purchased at the Skeena Valley Nursery on Sunday. But I dutifully carry the trays outside each morning to soak up the warm sunshine, and bring them back into the cabin at nightfall. Today I decided to join them.Sitting on the bench that Bob and I moved to the garden a few days ago, I feel my body unfold and expand; reaching for the sunlight, not unlike the cucumber, zucchini, cabbage, tomato and marigold plants that sit in trays just beyond me. Sometimes I forget how calming a garden has always been for me. Tending them has gotten me through most of life’s rough spots; the tumultuous teen years of my sons, the death of my father, and the end of a long marriage. I often joked that I had to have weeds always growing in my gardens for those times when I needed to “weed beds and clear my head.”
Other than emerging from a long winter in a small cabin, I have no rough spots to work through today. I am simply content to sit here in the sun with the cabbages, zucchinis, tomatoes, and marigolds… just bring me in at nightfall.
… P. L. Morningstar
posted by Looking for Hope | 9:23 AM
2 Comments:
Thank you for sharing a part of the life you are now living. Often, I imagine myself living as you two are doing, unfortunately this will not occur for me. Still, I maintain a simplistic life living in the Gila Valley in New Mexico where so many deer visited me every evening this past fall, winter and early spring. I sit in silence marveling at the infinite wonders of the natural world. My neighbors are the four-legged, the feathered and the crawlers, not to forget the river, plant life and the symphony of song. Here I can forget the imbalance outside my world and feel grateful for my many blessings.
Again, thank you for sharing.
Love both of your thoughtful and beautiful writings, I will be back. I am retiring in 2 weeks and live on 4 acres in fl. I grow lots of vegetables and fruits and love the green and natural world around me. I hope those of us who feel the wonder and beauty of our planet can help to keep it for those who come after us. faith
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