If You're Missing Your Garden, This Is For You

Happy Autumn

Hand Made and Home Grown by me "HAPPY AUTUMN"

 Home Grown from Seeds ----Gourds with Googly eyes.

New research on plant intelligence may forever change how you think about plants

“The best things in life happen to you when you’re alone,” artist Agnes Martin reflected in her final years. “Oh comforting solitude, how favorable thou art to original thought!” wrote the founding father of neuroscience in his advice to young scientists. The poet Elizabeth Bishop believed that everyone should experience at least one prolonged period of solitude in life. For in true solitude, as Wendell Berry so memorably observed, “one’s inner voices become audible [and] in consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives” — an intuitive understanding of what psychologists have since found: that “fertile solitude” is the basic unit of a full and contented life.

Alone one is never lonely: the spirit
              adventures, waking
In a quiet garden, in a cool house, abiding single there;
The spirit adventures in sleep, the sweet thirst-slaking
When only the moon’s reflection touches the wild hair.
There is no place more intimate than the spirit alone:
It finds a lovely certainty in the evening and the morning.
It is only where two have come together bone against bone
That those alonenesses take place, when, without warning
The sky opens over their heads to an infinite hole in space;
It is only turning at night to a lover that one learns
He is set apart like a star forever and that sleeping face
(For whom the heart has cried, for whom the frail hand burns)
Is swung out in the night alone, so luminous and still,
The waking spirit attends, the loving spirit gazes
Without communion, without touch, and comes to know at last
Out of a silence only and never when the body blazes
That love is present, that always burns alone, however steadfast.

SOURCE:BRAIN PICKINGS

A Deep Red Cherry Burgundy Colored Tiny Sunflower & Some Peppers Picked In The Garden

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I adore this little sunflower I grew.

It is approximately 1inch across

and is a deep cherry burgundy color.

It is the sweetest little thing.

Peppers, all sweet, from the garden 

\just right for stuffing.

A Girl Can't Grow Too Many Sunflowers

Gladiolas & A DIRTY HOE IS A HAPPY HOE

A Monarch, A Goldfinch Eating The Homegrown Sunflower Seeds and A Baltimore Oriole In The Garden

Eagles At The Wildlife Refuge, A Black Snake and Wild Hibiscus

A Giant Swallowtail & The Pumpkin Patch

The World Needs........

A SUNFLOWER, The Powder Blue Sky & Some Poofy Clouds....Purrrfect