Yesterday my #1 Grandchild and her sweet hubby (Grandson-in-law but I call him Grandson anyway) came over to help lift my spirits as the weather continues to be cold, rainy, and most un-springlike. They pulled out my tabletop garden and rearranged it so that I have twice the room I had before. Now there is room for the beautiful birdcage she made me for Christmas that twinkles with fairy lights at night, plus the two new plants I got for Mother's Day - a violet and some succulents. You would have thought that it was Christmas morning and I was 5 years old again for how happy I was with the finished product.
Granddaughter #2, sister to #1 Grandchild, gave me this beautiful garden flag which I have hanging on the front of the table to hide the bin underneath that houses my garden tools, pots, and seeds. The entire corner is a little wonderland with space for the herb plants that I will be starting after Memorial Day. Last year's failed attempts to plant any earlier up north where I live even with grow lights taught me that the old adage of not planting until Memorial Day is there for a reason!
As I sit here in my apartment and continue my healing and rehab from my hip surgery, I am forever humbled and grateful not only for my family who takes such good care of me, but for the joy that Mother Nature's gifts bring me however small. For me there is more beauty in the creamy pink petals of the violet than in a diamond, and more laughter in the antics of the blue jays outside my window playing tag than any movie or TV show. I recently treated myself to a new pair of binoculars and now can take in the view up close and personal. Who needs livestream and surround sound? I've got it all and it doesn't cost me a cent, just the time I spend enjoying it, time well spent for sure. I call it Mother Nature's medicine and it works just fine.
And so it is.
What a lovely world you have created!
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