TWO years ago, during summer, I ate a very ripe AND delicious MANGO grown in MEXICO and purchased at the LOCAL grocery store ... I decided to plant the BIG seed in a plastic pot filled with homemade COMPOST ... It germinated within a FEW weeks and I brought the container INSIDE before winter arrived ...
It is now almost 3 FEET high and doing GREAT ! Maybe, when I am really REALLY old, I will have the PLEASURE of tasting one of its sweet FRUITS ...
Gardening is PURE magic ... And it is all about ANTICIPATION, optimism and SIMPLICITY ... Three of my FAVORITE words !
MARCH is here and early SPRING has officially SPROUTED around HERE !
New PAINTINGS are SPROUTING on canvas ! TONS of creative ideas are SPROUTING in my head ... Road trip DESIRES are SPROUTING in my mind ... NEED for changes is SPROUTING somewhere DEEP inside me ...
NO matter what, HAPPINESS brought by sunshine and my PAPA doing BETTER, slowly but surely, is SPROUTING in my HEART ...
SPROUTS here, SPROUTS there, SPROUTS everywhere !
LOOK at what SPROUTED among SEEDLINGS in a little flat of assorted RED annual flowers !
GARDEN gnome BABIES ! And I BET they SPROUTED a SMILE on YOUR face TOO !
Happy PREMATURE spring to YOU !
We built our BELOVED house years ago in a REMOTE forest of deciduous trees on the flank of a mountain ...
During SUMMER, our home stays FRESH and COOL, shaded by the MAPLE trees growing so CLOSE that the limbs touch the ROOF ...
And come the COLDER months, the leaves fall off to let the LIGHT enter through the WINDOWS, making it BRIGHT and HAPPY, rain or shine, for the SECOND half of the year ...
TEN days ago I ate a beautiful, juicy and delicious POMEGRANATE ...
I kept TEN of its SEEDS and planted them in a FAVORITE little clay jar that I unearthed TEN years ago from the RUINS of an OLD abandoned HOUSE ...
ALL it took was TEN days and TEN nights and a little MAGIC for ONE of the seeds to SPROUT ...
I just LOVE to think that TEN years from now, I will sit under the SHADE of the tree it will become, TEN years OLDER, to eat a POMEGRANATE ...
