Gardening. Happy Sunday!

“If your eye is generous, your whole being is full of light!” Jesus

This is the result so far of my somewhat haphazard attempts at “sprucing up” the front yard. We had these bare patches where not much would grow on what was pretty much pure builder’s sand...used as backfill around the foundation of the house and to bury the native wetland on which our whole development was built. I need another bag of mulch (or two), and some kind of edging (if I ever get to that), but the plants are in and look pretty good. Rose and lavender and assilyum and silvia and two blueberry bushes of different varieties, one on each side. I looked at a lot of showy larger bushes to hold down the big open area of the patches, but in the end could not resist putting in something “useful”. Maybe we will get berries and maybe we will not. We already have two blueberry bushes in the yard but have yet to see any fruit. There are already berries on the bushes I just planted. We will see if they ripen and repeat next year. 

Maybe it is what I said about the Lupine Lady last week...but it feels good to do something to beautify the place where we live. I totally understand the impulse to garden...I just rarely have the ambition for it. I have now invested about $150 in this project, and two afternoons...most of 2 days if you count the plant shopping,...so I have an incentive to keep it watered and growing, and to finish it a bit more. And it does look better, I think, than the bare sand. But then I see it with a generous eye...not so much for what it is, as for the impulse to add some beauty (even if by hiding some uglinesses). And that is often all we are called to do. We can’t change the whole world, but if we can substitute a bit of beauty for ugliness in the areas we have in our charge, then we will, I think, have accomplished much toward making the world a better place. And if the blueberries ripen and repeat, so much the better. May your eye be generous and Sunday a happy one!