Out my garden window

Garden fairies are so fun if you have a little one with you in the garden. As I look out to an early spring garden, there isn't much color other than sprouts of green iris. The garden fairies haven't been to work yet.

I like to share with young garden visitors the tales of garden fairies. We even have a tree with a door and windows for the fairies. My story is that garden fairies give the blooming flowers their color early in the morning. Now wouldn't that be something to see out the kitchen window?

Oh, the spring garden, it gives us hope. It gives us a spiritual connection to nature and God. And for me, I think it is where I need to be during these uncertain days.

A person can just let their imagination go in the garden. You can scoop up a handful of soil and smell the earth. You can grab a hoe and work out frustration. You can nurture growing plants and you can dream of days of clear skies and warm sun.

I haven't headed out to the garden yet this morning. Instead, I am laying out seed packets as it is time to get the early veggie seeds in the ground. Among the seed packets are flowers seeds. Bright photos of blooming flowers are a real pick-me-upper. I might just have to hang on to them and look at them over the coming weeks.

I will look at them and enjoy the color while the garden fairies haven't done their work of painting flowers in my garden.

As the story goes, it is hard to get a glimpse of the fairies at work. They do their color painting before the sun comes up.

They dance, they fly. They are a happy group of garden workers.

Doesn't the thought of the fairies make you want to plant flowers outside your kitchen window?

Inside the house, I am enjoying checking seedlings daily. I water carefully, move them from window to window and rotate them under growing lights. All this until they can move out to my greenhouse, which is another story of a garden challenge.

Wow, if the garden fairies are looking in through my kitchen window, I bet they think I am as busy as they will soon be in the blooming garden.

Enjoy the spring days and don't just look out your windows. Go ahead and smell the earth and breath in the blessings you have been given.

From my kitchen window to yours, a blessed Easter and a healthy and peaceful spring.