Petals + Dreams + Colorful Days of May

The busiest garden days are upon us.

They bring the dreamiest petals, endless gifts.

All the beautiful colors.

The tiniest winged creatures & their wings catching the light.

The sun at different hours of the day casting a glow in different ways.

It's all a perfect recipe for dreaming.

For thinking about what's next on the menu.

What would you like to do?

Have you given up on your dreams?

Or are they dancing around you, just waiting for you to pluck one and plunge?

The garden has so many of those answers.

It dreams for you.

It serves you beautiful platters of inspiration.

It begs you to drag your easel out and paint amongst the birds and bees.

It says…

Here, take these miraculous incredible gifts I have for you.

Green stems with petals on top.

Wrapping round and round, scented too.

Is it a dream?

It's a living day dream, isn't it?

The rows of roses mingle with cactus at the front gates.

The snapdragon scent floats around, making you blissfully discombobulated.

Or maybe it's just the dizziness from swinging on the swing, so fast and so high.

The hummingbirds come right up to you.

Hello.

The sun illuminates their beautiful colors.

It's all too good.

It's just too good.

This beautiful time of magical spring.

When all you can whisper is, thank you…

The hummers steal from the spiders…

Treats from waiting webs.

And I think to myself, maybe I can hear the ruffles of snapdragons singing.

What a place, a garden.

I know so many of you have gardens too, so I know you understand.

The beauty, the joy in it all.

The colors just take my breath away.

I lounge in the garden chaise just watching it all happen.

As birds fight for lunch.

Cardinal swoops in for sunflower seeds.

Doves hang around their girl's nest.

Keeping watch (I love that).

And delphiniums that turned from blue to white are blue again.

The fresh soil must have replenished the acidity.

As the sun begins to set colors take on a more wonderland hue.

Hummingbirds zip around doing somersaults in the air.

The dogs chase each other and I do my pruning.

Always offering the cuttings too spent for vases to the garden angel.

I love that moment where the sky turns so blue that everything looks fluorescent.

My place of peace and dreams.

I know I know, I say I'm done planting and then all my new dahlia tubers arrive.

I have been enjoying working on some paintings lately.

I've even been softening clay and playing with jewelry beads.

Who knows what I might pull out of my rabbit's hat.

My life has been on the craziest journey of wonderful happenings.

Sometimes it's hard to invite even good things into your life when you are not one who likes change.

But when you do, who knows the exciting and lovely things you may find?

It's not so easy to be open to life flowing when you are cozy in your shell.

But living in the day to day moment is really such a beautiful concept.

As they say, the past is history and the future is just an invented story.

But we always have the now.

Embracing the now and new things it might bring.

The most important thing we can do for ourselves.

We worry about things that don't even make sense, don't we?

The what if's.

Which rarely happen.

So why not just enjoy the moment?

Last year I told myself that my new motto was always keep moving forward.

And not in big ways, but little ways.

Like, go hiking, go to the book store and find something new to read.

Always something that keeps the flow of life going.

Jump into your parent's 60' pool in your pajamas.

Dance, just put on some music you love and dance.

Try a new recipe, plant a new plant, or seeds.

See how we can do tiny things to keep moving forward and keep the flow of the stream going?

It's so important.

All the little things mean more than anything.

The now, the little things.

Just my two cents.

But hey, it can't hurt, can it?

We can all try.

Being mindful of our own well being is so important.

<3

 

Lots of love,

Vanessa

 

 

 

 

ps:

I forgot to share my kinda ugly kookie Easter tree.

Makes me so happy.

I'm going to leave it up year round and just change it for the holidays.

It's a smaller skinny tree (6ft) that I flocked myself with a non-toxic flocking powder, a sieve and a water filled spray bottle.

I'll change it up for summer and 4th of July next <3