A cottage garden invites one in to enjoy its beauty and sensual delights. Sights, tastes, smells, and tactile pleasures abound. Butterflies flutter and glide; humming birds whir and hover; bees buzz, toads hop, and deer and rabbits feast. Scenes of beginnings, maturings, endings and peaceful, contemplative spaces connect us with the human story of seasonsContinue reading “God’s Garden”
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Planning for Harvest…
Although it is still winter here in Maine, gardeners are looking at seed catalogues, and farmers are thinking ahead to spring planting and dreaming about the fruits of their labor. Some Aroostook farmer sowed (and most importantly painstakingly cultivated) this beautiful field of blossoming potato plants shown in the photo. Knowledge of seed types, bestContinue reading “Planning for Harvest…”
Year Around Gardening and Earth Day
Perhaps the reason so many of us enjoy gardening is because God planted a very “good” garden “eastward in Eden” and turned its stewardship over to humanity ! (Genesis 1:10-12; 2:8,9,15; 3:18) April 22nd has been observed as “Earth Day” in the United States since 1970. Although long standing, conflicting ideas about humanity’s responsibilityContinue reading “Year Around Gardening and Earth Day”
Sweet Words from Maine 