Inspired by the sun

What is happier than this? Doesn't she look like she's looking up at God and just welcoming the day? I love the way the face tilts toward the sun.

I had to get in between the corn and the sunflowers to get this picture - but it's so worth it - seeing the dew on her face.  I don't know why I keep calling this one a "her" - it just seems fitting to me.

i love this one bending through my tomato cages.

this one makes my heart sing...  it makes me think she's covering her eyes, not wanting to wake up....

Here's a baby...

and this one, I think this one is a boy sunflower, standing at attention...

I love the way they stand guarding my garden.

Yes, i know it needs to be weeded, and yes, the squash is out of control. and no, the corn did not fair so well this year...but it did give me this...

If this move goes through, this is what I'll miss the most.  This little patch of land, on a dirt road, in the middle of the city. It's given me so much to appreciate the past 4 years.  I've loved it here.

It inspired me to keep.going.  even when i thought i couldn't.  Thank you home. Thank you garden.

Linking to Melissa's Inspired By.. Friday's posts 
and to Darcy's Sweet Shot Tuesday

Yes, I was laying in dirt when i took this picture.

Doesn't it make you feel 'fairy'-like? I want to touch the furry stems of that squash plant and feel the droplets of water hit my cheek as it falls from the leaves. 

It had just rained late this afternoon and I needed to get away from the laptop and the taptaptap of commerce.  One of the benefits of working from home.  Slipping out, bare feet, in the damp, soft earth when work gets a little chaotic.  I don't think i can go back to working in a real office.

Nothing like the air after a cool spring rain....

I can't wait to pull that beauty out of the ground for a wonderful, crisp salad....with some of these pretty cherry tomatoes below...

Thanks for indulging me on my trek through my garden.  I never thought I would fall in love with something like this.  It's amazing. I sit on my back porch and watch it rain on my little patch of dirt, and thank God for blessing us with something that keeps giving and giving.  He is so good.

Linking to Darcy's Sweet Shot Tuesday

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Dirt Between My Toes

 sweet basil in my garden, March 31st, 2010

I love the morning when the sun is shining down so softly on the earth.  One of my favorite things to do is make a cup of coffee (super strong, but loaded with splenda and cream) and wander outside and walk through my yard.  I got that from my dad.

Every Saturday morning, he would get his coffee and we would go out to the yard and softly pad through the dewy grass to see what was coming up in the garden - and i think he loved it, also, because he could hear me gush about all of the Easter lillies he worked so hard on. I loved those flowers so much - but more than that, I just loved  hanging out with my Dad.

I think my oldest son has gotten that bug because he volunteers to leave the TV and his Rice Krispies and walk with me.  We had such a great time trying to capture those cardinals last Saturday. My little nature lover.  I hope he holds these walks with me in his heart as he gets older like I do the ones with my dad.

corn, 2 weeks from planting, March 30, 2010

Our garden is twice as big this year.  At the middle of March we planted Romaine lettuce, red and yellow onions, corn, green and orange peppers, jalapeno peppers, tomatoes (gotta have tomatoes!), watermelon, yellow squash, zuchinni, eggplant and cucumbers.  In between the tomato cages and rows of corn we planted sunflowers and marigolds.  The only thing we did from seed was the corn but it only took 2 weeks to go from seed to what you see above.  How can one put one bite of food in their mouth and not think God exists? I mean really? To watch a garden grow just makes me amazed at God's bounty and promise to provide.  My life has definitely not turned out the way thought it would, but God has shown me that He is always in control, he just asks for faith. His love does not end.

While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. - Genesis 8:22