Starting the Garden

This weekend we started working on our garden.

It was so beautiful and warm (63F 18C)



We bought paint for our planters boxes. I planted a big barrel of fresh herbs. Rosemary, leeks, parsley, cilantro, oregano and basil. We tilled composted manure into half of our garden, then covered it with black material to rest. We working on getting the soil much better for next year. It's not great soil right now. We will fill out planters boxes next weekend with soil, compost and vegetables.

We had paint left over so decided to paint out 2 bird houses, which we dull and faded wood. I hope that the birds like them ! I dug up some old plants that came with the house. I don't see the point in having prickly vines that don't grow any flowers. Our rose plant did so well last year that I would like to plant a rose garden behind the house. So beautiful.

I am also starting some fresh herbs inside the house. The smell is wonderful and we use lots of herbs for cooking so the more the merrier.


I am so excited. I don't know much but am learning and enjoying the experience. I hope that my garden does well in the future. Last year we had tomatoes and peppers, but the over abundance of rain ruined a lot of our plants. Lets see what the raised beds do this year and hope for the best.

Clouds

"A cloud is a visible mass of droplets. The process of condenstaion results in the formation of clouds."

I am obsessed with clouds.

I can't stop taking pictures of them.

Always changing, ever beautiful, forever intriging.

As a kid, the game of guessing what the cloud looks like was always fun. I still do it today. You can see so much in them. It stirs the imagination.

The colours of the sky. The shape of the clouds. You can't find this beauty anywhere else. Mother Nature is magnificent.

Imagine being a bird and being able to fly amongst the skies. the sights you would see. the wind you would feel. The freshness of the Earth's beauty.

Walking around and staring at the sky. Driving in traffic and just taking a few seconds to look up and enjoy the natural beauty that surrounds us every day. People take it for granted. I try not to. I love having lots of windows in my house, so I can always look out and see the sky.

I would love to study them more. To understand them. To read them.

They are truly an amazing part of this world.

"A pessimist only sees the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philisopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them." -- Leonard L. Levinsen