Archive - May 2010

I love May.  Everything is here, new-born after winter’s absence, fresh-green and glowing.  The newly hatched leaves are translucent and are as perfect as a baby’s toes, eliciting the same surge of awe.  The trees swell to their full size and you can just catch them in their playdays, unfurling fingers, learning the lure of the sun before they settle into the majesty of their maturity.   read more »

The garden is a magic place this morning, hung with sun-spun scents and sounds, blossom lazily spilling to the ground, birds interpreting the silence.  There are bees humming among the flowers and planes humming far overhead but it is early on a Saturday and not many sounds of people intrude.  The space belongs to the garden and I feel privileged to be allowed in.  read more »