gardening

Alrighty, the front yard is finally done.  As I mentioned, it had started to look a little sad and sparse and was ready for its yearly mulching.  I’d really like my entire yard to look like the Secret Garden but the truth is we’re pretty horrible to plants.  I feel like this is a nice, simple, clean look we can maintain.

 

Before straight on:

After straight on:

 

Before from left side:

 

After from left side:

I love that we reused the plants from the front on the side of the house.  I’m sure our neighbors appreciate that all of that A/C stuff is covered up now too.

 

Oh and just for fun, here is this angle from last year before the addition.  Wow! That blue sky and white tree are awfully pretty but the house looks so different without the addition!:

 

Before from right side:

After right side:

We put sod down where most of the natural area was in the front. 

 

Before down sidewalk:

After down sidewalk:

 

 

 

Before from kitchen window:

 

After from kitchen window:

I love natural areas but I have to say I really love looking out and seeing the green for a long stretch, especially from our kitchen window.

This fall we’re planning on planting some bulbs for around the sidewalk to get even more color during the spring.  So that’s that for now.  Thanks for letting me share these little slices of life 🙂

I saw this film called Back to Eden on Facebook from a gal at church and then her husband recommended it to me on Twitter.  I finally caved to the social media pressure and watched (TY Tyler and Ashley!).  I have to say, it is one of the best things I’ve seen.  I know it’s just the PMS, but the darn thing made me cry.

Everything rang so true to me…God speaking so clearly through nature, God providing “a covering” (I mean, could it BE any more obvious that it points to Christ?), the reasoning behind GMO plants, how our food is connected to our health problems, how we try to fix things and make them complicated when God made things so simple.  I could just go on and on.  I just loved how Paul truly connected gardening to God and the proof of his garden cannot be denied.  I have never seen vegetables like he pulled out of his garden. And the fact that he does not till or water his garden is just unbelievable.  And to top it all off he gives freely out of his garden and does not sell any of it. It really makes me want to take a trip to Washington STAT.  Well, actually, it makes me want to go find some wood chips STAT.

Whether you garden or not, you need to watch this film.  It’s long but I promise you’ll be blessed.  I’d embed it here but it won’t let me so hop over to the site.

Alrighty, this is it. My little baby garden. I ended up switching out marigolds for more lettuce and broccoli.   I keep getting the feeling there’s too much in there.  I guess we’ll soon see.