I don’t have a favourite place to sit in my garden because it doesn’t really feel like my own, and it would take a lot of energy to spruce it up, which is hard to muster when you rent. But I do like to stand under the apple blossom tree with its fluffy cloud petals 🌸
Ah I hear you Sarah. My first garden was in our rented place (actually in the next road to where we are now) during the lockdowns. I was SO grateful to have it but I agree there is shift when you feel more connection with the patch of land. Though I guess with any patch, we are only custodians for so long. Your apple tree and it’s cloud petals sounds so beautiful ☁️ xx
Love the wisteria! I feel you on that “emerging” theme coming out from these years of intense mothering in early childhood. My daughter (second childhood) was born in August 2021 and we moved 6.5 hours away from family in October of that year—it was intense. For me, it’s watching the camellia plant bud and bloom in the back corner of our yard, watching the cardinals prepare their nest, lay eggs, and tend to their babies in the tree right outside our front window. All those tiny moments in nature a blissful invitation to pause 🙂
Ah yes it is magic! It’s lovely to hear that you are feeling tinges of emergence too. The experience after having your daughter sounds incredibly intense. I hope it is feeling more easeful and like home now? Your observations of life unfurling in your backyard are beautiful, how wonderful to bear witness to all of this and yes to the reasons to pause. Thank you for being here Ashley! xx
Ahhh wisteria definitely has my heart… my favourite place to sit at the moment is on the bench that is almost hidden under the lilac tree. Even though the flowers are long gone, it’s like a little den. Xx
It is so impossibly beautiful, I couldn’t believe it the first spring we were here. Ah your favourite place sounds beautiful, you know lilac has a special place in my heart! It must have smelt amazing when the flowers were out. I must look into planting it. I love how your place sounds so hidden and tucked away xx
I don’t have a favourite place to sit in my garden because it doesn’t really feel like my own, and it would take a lot of energy to spruce it up, which is hard to muster when you rent. But I do like to stand under the apple blossom tree with its fluffy cloud petals 🌸
Ah I hear you Sarah. My first garden was in our rented place (actually in the next road to where we are now) during the lockdowns. I was SO grateful to have it but I agree there is shift when you feel more connection with the patch of land. Though I guess with any patch, we are only custodians for so long. Your apple tree and it’s cloud petals sounds so beautiful ☁️ xx
Love the wisteria! I feel you on that “emerging” theme coming out from these years of intense mothering in early childhood. My daughter (second childhood) was born in August 2021 and we moved 6.5 hours away from family in October of that year—it was intense. For me, it’s watching the camellia plant bud and bloom in the back corner of our yard, watching the cardinals prepare their nest, lay eggs, and tend to their babies in the tree right outside our front window. All those tiny moments in nature a blissful invitation to pause 🙂
Ah yes it is magic! It’s lovely to hear that you are feeling tinges of emergence too. The experience after having your daughter sounds incredibly intense. I hope it is feeling more easeful and like home now? Your observations of life unfurling in your backyard are beautiful, how wonderful to bear witness to all of this and yes to the reasons to pause. Thank you for being here Ashley! xx
Ahhh wisteria definitely has my heart… my favourite place to sit at the moment is on the bench that is almost hidden under the lilac tree. Even though the flowers are long gone, it’s like a little den. Xx
It is so impossibly beautiful, I couldn’t believe it the first spring we were here. Ah your favourite place sounds beautiful, you know lilac has a special place in my heart! It must have smelt amazing when the flowers were out. I must look into planting it. I love how your place sounds so hidden and tucked away xx