The graph of life

Rob Lowe said, "I have a lot of great memories, but I can't imagine anything more exciting than the life I have now." Oh, I can so totally agree with him!

Looking back at my life, I can honestly say that the years have just gotten better and better. Of course there have been bad times, sad times, even devastating times, but like a graph, the ups far exceed the downs. The paths I've taken in life now seems like they were pre-destined, leading me through a maze of experiences. Some awesome, some not so good, but each with a lesson.

And it's what we learn from each lesson that further determines where the next path will lead us, whether our life graph will steadily go up or down.

Winter is dead

She turned to the sunlight and shook her yellow head... and whispered to her neighbour, "Winter is dead”.
- A A Milne

What a garden requires

A garden requires patient labour and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfil good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.
~ Liberty Hyde Bailey

Setting out food for feathered friends near your garden encourages them to stick around and do some insect control.

There's something pleasing about a bunch of carrots with tops on. Maybe it's the thought of pulling them out of the ground.

Even though it's winter

Even though it's winter and I'm not out in the garden much, I still think of my garden! Here are a few things I've been planning : sketching and drawing new little corners, moving pot plants around, rearranging all the succulents on the plant stands, trimming low-hanging branches of the trees to allow in more sunlight.

Thunder rumbled its way into the distance, and then the rain came, dropping words to the ground all around me.

Step outside after the first storm after a dry spell and it invariably hits you: the sweet, fresh, powerfully evocative smell of fresh rain! If you’ve ever noticed this mysterious scent and wondered what’s responsible for it, you’re not alone. It's called “petrichor.” It’s the name of an oil that’s released from Earth into the air before rain begins to fall. This heady smell of oncoming wet weather is something most people are familiar with – in fact, some scientists now suggest that humans inherited an affection for the smell from ancestors who relied on rainy weather for their survival.