A Little Deer

A nice reward...after all the work

 David and I worked hard this weekend to make a new garden out of a pile of dirt.

 There were.so.many.rocks. There still is but at least it's manageable. 

  I wish I had a before the digging picture, the garden looks completely different than it did and I love it even more now. We still have to get some bigger shrubs and add pavers to the path as well as fill in with more flowers. You can never have enough flowers....and herbs. I'm planting those today! 

 Phew! I'm taking it easy today and I find myself staring out at the garden admiring it every time I pass by the picture window. The perfect reward.

Trying to find an upside

 As I type, I can hear a giant excavator in my front yard digging a hole to China. They have to replace an old sewer pipe that runs directly under my lovely garden. At least it used to be lovely. Right now the contents of my garden are in my very generous neighbors yards waiting to be re-planted. David and I spent so much time this spring planting new things, making a meandering rock pathway. We were so excited how all the things we put in last year were speading out. The litle crabapple was beginning to bloom. All to be dug up in a few minutes time. 

Normally I would be fuming, angry and near tears. For some reason I am feeling pretty calm. I'm trying to find a positive in all this beside just getting new plumbing and the ability to use water again in our house. I know David and I won't have the desire or the time to rebuild the garden like it used to be. I'm trying to look at it as an opportunity to have a fresh new design, since all that will be left of our garden is a giant pile of dirt. A clean slate.

Perhaps it will be even better than before.

Welcome to my mossy world...

So um yeah...I'm procrastinating. I have a ton of shit I should be doing. So what do I do....build a terrarium and blog about it of course!

So this is what sits on my desk as I write to you. I totally stole the idea from Aprill.

So you see that red thing in there? Well it's about the teeniest tiny-est Buddha ever. I decided to put him in instead of this other stuff because I kept thinking about how some of the comments about my studio pictures were about how calm and peaceful it looked. Well it is a slice of heaven, so now I have a teeny  living world on my desk and it's making me sooo happy. I think another one may be in order.To keep the other one company of course.

With the Buddha in there it reminds me about that part in "The Fountain" when he is on his way up into the dying star.

Anywho enough procrastination...off to um "work".

New Year's Orchid

New Year's Orchid
Originally uploaded by Ponies & Sugar Cookies.

Our newest member of the plantie family rose to the occasion and displayed herself proudly on the morning of the New Year.

I must profess my love for orchids. They are so peaceful and exotic and sexy. At least that's what I think. I am always in such awe of them.

Some of you may know I LOVE to plant and grow all sorts of things and since we now live in the city the vegetable garden is no longer (sniff). SO I am throwing myself into my houseplants, which I have plenty of. Most of which I'll share with you cuz well, I'm a plant geek.

But anyway the point of this post is that thing with orchids is that when they get ready to bloom it is a very slow and exciting process. Something which I delight in. I am constantly checking them for new shoots.
The process goes like this...they are all leafy and dormant (not blooming) for quite some time during the year and then when they stars are in the seventh power and Jupiter aligns with Mars (at least it feels like this) they send up this skinny shoot and then you watch each delicate bud form and then finally you are left waiting anxiously for those gorgeous flowers to pop open and say hello.
The whole process can take weeks but it is amazing. I get such a thrill out of my little planties, so um go get yourself an orchid and I bet you will fall in love too.