A good day to breathe...

A new day begins
listen, the awakening
beckons your heartstrings

The iris blooming all around my farmstead were planted by woman whom also loved this lil' home. She lovingly planted them all around it's perimeter and every spring since, they've bloomed, welcoming each day.
I pondered getting rid of the old tractor tires set 'round here and there, but she also painstakingly planted each one with sedum. This was the fashion on the farms back in the day, you used to see them on nearly every farm.
With these wet springs we've had and my careful nurturing of the delicate plantings, they've really started to stretch out into the yard.
This is an herb garden that keeps growing with every year, sprinkled with bits of reminders of my love of Florida.

I pulled this bench from someones trash heap...SCORE!!!
I'm just starting to work on filling it's space with greens, but the sedum is really taking over right there, so I may just make it a permanent home under the bench.

Got my fingers and toes crossed, that the varmit that ate my broccoli last year, has moved on...

Gonna work on this piece I picked up at Good Will yesterday...
all it needs is a good beating and some new handles.

Now I have everything...including the kitchen sink...and an outdoor potty...

The purple cabbages are really taking off with all the rains we've had, though I had to spot water yesterday, because I have very sandy, loamy soil and the winds blow constantly 'crossed my prairie plains...

This was once my veggie garden, but is now quite a nice strawberry patch, they love the sandy soils, as do I, the weeding is a cinch!

The fruits of my labor...
Yup...yet another pan of delicate morsels to please this country girls palate...
ahhhhh...life is good on my lil' piece of paradise...

Iowa
and the Pink Chateau...