Gardening

This time of year is wonderful...it is spring and everything is fresh and new. I've been tilling and planting the garden, cleaning up the flower beds and lawns, and burning piles of sticks and trash. There's real satisfaction in that type of work. Starting a big fire is therapeutic, somehow.

My grandma Ethel Snyder Carson lived to age 95. She had a yard around her house that was probably an acre of land, with tall elm trees shading it. Every day she would go out and pick up sticks in her yard. That's what kept her healthy for all of those years...she was a hard worker and it paid off in years. I thought of her today while I was gathering up sticks to throw on the fire. I only hope to have the quality of life she had, and I'll leave the quantity of years in my life up to the Lord.

Here's a bunny that has had nests in our yard for the past couple of years. I rarely see her in the winter, but this time of year she comes out to gather food for her babies, and she will just freeze in her tracks if I walk out of the house. She thinks as long as she stays still I can't see her. So I was able to capture this photo: