Living and writing in a circa 1840 New England Farmhouse with three generations of my family
Gratitude can be so easy to find in the garden even on a rainy day. First, I was thankful that I didn’t need to water the garden. That would have been enough to set my day off in a good direction. Beautiful flowers in bloom Read More
I found my gratitude in the weather today. I was downtown when the skies turned light, then medium, and finally a dark foreboding shade of grey. Rain started to fall and then it started to pour. I was caught in the rain with errands that Read More
My gratitude was waiting for me in the perennial garden this morning. It’s easy for me to find gratitude there. It’s a space that grows reasons for me to be thankful. I have been watching this particular hydrangea bloom open up. I have made an Read More
I found gratitude at dusk tonight. My family had been outside for a few hours and we lingered until this moment. The sky was just losing light, the colors of the sunset being overtaken by darkness. We listened as a pair of Barred Owls called Read More
I held a bit of gratitude in the palm of my hand today. And yes, you would think that as a person who makes baskets that I might carry one with me when I head out to the garden. You’d be wrong because I find Read More
I mixed up a bit of gratitude in the kitchen today. I love to work on recipes and make things for my family, so being in the kitchen doing both of those things makes me very happy. Today had started out as the sort of Read More
My gratitude was swaying in the breeze this morning. This zinnia was standing tall, several inches above the other zinnias in our garden. It was impossible not to stop and admire this gorgeous, colorful bloom. Just look at the shape of each piece, the colors Read More
I found myself feeling grateful for an unexpected discovery this afternoon. I was out in the garden, picking ripe tomatoes. That is enough to fill me with gratitude, especially when I help myself to a few cherry tomatoes still warm from the sun. Then I Read More
My gratitude was growing in the tomato patch today. I started my morning early, working my way through my morning farm chores. As I did, I found this Black Prince tomato ripening on the vine. As a gardener, there’s nothing that fills me with more Read More
I found gratitude waiting for me in the nestbox today. As a chicken keeper, you always hope to find fresh eggs waiting there. No matter how many years I have been keeping hens, I’m still excited to find one. There’s just no amount of egg Read More
I found gratitude in a place I have found it before today. It was in the discovery, or re-discovery of the fact that nothing is perfect and that there is beauty in imperfection. Nature often reminds me of both things, although in separate places. Today, Read More
I found my gratitude in making a connection from something I saw in the garden to my past. It was in this hydrangea bloom. Looking at the photo as I type this post is making me smile all these hours later. We’ve had this hydrangea Read More