Standing on a hillside covered in snow with animal tracks at my feet, I decided to wait for the clouds to pass so I could take this polaroid. It was almost too warm out in the blazing sun, the sky so denim blue it shimmered. I could hear the sawing of nearby arborists in the trees as they pruned craggy branches on the cusp of spring. The clouds took about twenty minutes to pass by, and I just stood there for all that time, the snow sparkling like fireworks, and thinking about nothing much at all.
It was pretty great.
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too warm with snow on the ground...is there such a thing? it's nice sometimes to just sit and be still so you had a good excuse. pretty sky. hope the whole trip was just as lovely :)
That sounds pretty great.
Jenna ~ yes, I had a great trip!! So glad I got away for a few days. I had a mini retreat at Kripalu (yoga, sauna, amazing food) in western MA, and then stayed 2 nights with Somer. Her cats are the cutest things ever. I took some polaroids of her beautiful house which I'll share here the next few days. :) And I know, it's hard to sit still sometimes; I find myself on the go looking for things to do, and it was so relaxing to just putter around in nature with no agenda. Kind of like gardening. Are you guys planning your garden yet?? Are you expanding anything?
Elizabeth ~ it was! :) You've been posting some beautiful images of nature lately!
yes...already talking about our "big plans" actually. we're both super excited. we're going to expand and take up every bit of available sunny patches in the yard (although with all our trees there's not so many). we'd love to do so many of last years goodies...tomatoes of all sorts, basil, basil, and basil, scallions, more herbs, broccoli, zucchini, peppers, snap peas, green beans, maybe beets this year and i would love some corn stalks, but we might not have the room. we're still hatching out our garden map :) how bout you?
Ooh yours is going to be gorgeous!!
Well do tomato, basil, brocolli, some kind of climbing snap pea, definitely beets, lettuce, spinach, turnips, carrots (plant 'em and forget 'em) and tons of flowers too. I want to work on using a lot of my plants for teas and salves. :) I'm really excited to do poppies again this year. And to harvest my chamomile! Which is really easy to grow, completely takes over. I also have collected the dying herbs each year from the garden center so now have a thriving herb border of different kinds of thymes (nutmeg!, lime, lemon). As you know we don't have a lot of room so this year we're going to build more trellises to grow things up.
Ahhh....I love garden thinking! I can't wait.
"dying herbs" as in they are 75% off but then do fine when you plant them in the ground.
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