Last summer i spray painted circles around baby redbud trees that were growing in my back yard lawn. i love those trees! they are so elegant and enchanting. The buds are like pink fire in the springtime, hence it's name. summer brings Spindly Stems bearing over sized leaves that are shaped like hearts. I've transplanted a few from the back to the side yard and they took off last summer. I couldn't bear to mow them down, so i took time to mark each little baby that dared to grow in my lawn. I don't care if i looked like a crazy person swerving this way and that, stopping abruptly to change rout while i was mowing. Jeff made fun of me and said that they probably didn't make it through the winter.... we'll see.
I had the flu last monday night. that was AWESOME. Just so happened that we ate at one of our most favorite places, Moe's, earlier that same dreadful night. won't be hearing, "welcome to Moe's!" in some time.
I pruned away the dead and uncovered some sure signs of spring.
nature's revenge:
It may not look pretty, but it is an work of art to me. Since we've had our house, I have spent more than a few hours uprooting and cutting down the overgrowth that = our backyard.
While bullying my way through the backyard, i hit the jackpot! seed pods from my biggest redbud tree. no one could have been more excited :) i gathered them up, popped them open and scattered them all around the outside of my house.
The whole afternoon was therapeutic and beautiful. Does God speak to everyone else like He does to me when I am in nature? Maybe i am naive to think that it is "our thing", me and God. When the sun rises, shines on my face, the wind blows, in my backyard, at the ocean, maybe this was made for me? It seems ironic that the vastness and grandness of God's nature would make me, little me, feel special. but it does. thanks God!
3 comments:
you are quite the artist, Miss Molly. I love how your mind works... and I love that I have a fellow nature lover in you... I too think that about God... that when He makes a big strong breeze in the summer gush by, it's for me to cool me off. Or when the lake is sparkling just in the right spot that catches my eye... It was God doing that to show me His Beauty. Or when a butterfly touches down near me...He's sending me a little love note of beauty. I think this is when He tries to speak to us the most... when we are in our most naive states of mind... when we let everything else be removed from our thoughts and are keenly aware of being in the moment. That is when we get to bask in His glory and love... and just be thankful for all of the beauty around us, all of the amazing gifts He gives us. I'd rather be naive... ;)
love you much... glad you are feeling better from the stinky flu. UGH!
p.s. please teach me how to make that hat! I want to make some soft hats for Grandma Bodine to wear. She likes to wear them to bed/while she sleeps... says it feels good on her head. when are you home next? or do you have a good tutorial to follow on this? or did Mama Maizie teach you this??? I've got one started, but yours is beautiful. Mine is juvenile. ;)
i love your words... so beautiful- and i totally relate. it's amazing to just bask, like you said.
ya know, i have a pattern for a simple beanie. i will mail it to you! it is crochet, i could help you with that. or there are also tutorials online on the basics.
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