You're so right about the wonderful effects of spending time out in the Natural world, away from the world of Man. My Sis had a heart attack and hemiplegic stroke, and that is what ìs healing her anď helping her recover. ❤
Hey - new image of you! Nice! And I did a double take at the Eastern Cottontails, because that scene looks exactly like what I see in my own yard. Alas, my time online is ample. Between working, reading interesting essays, and writing my own, I spend a lot of time looking at screens. At least I can say that 95% of the time there, and the content I come across, is curated. So, less of the feelings of assault that come from random scrolling.
As part of my work, I invited a local native bee expert (and friend) to be a guest on a recent lunch and learn. He and you have inspired me to work on creating more wild zones. My yard areas have never been manicured, and there are diverse species there, many of them native. But, I'm hoping to get a little more intentional about what grows there. Thanks for the lovely nudge.
Oh! Grounding! I wrote this almost exactly two years ago. I'm a little less disciplined about it now (One of Covid's gifts was how it gave many of us more time!) but still enjoy freeing my toes!
I feel as you do about gardening, springtime and the sense of calm and wellbeing I feel spending hours outdoors. Ironically, the more nature happenings that I have to write about in spring, the less I want to be sitting at a laptop writing about them. I too have a large native garden for wildlife habitat (though my urban yard is likely much smaller than yours), and I loved seeing your wild planting and visiting snapping turtle. They say animals/pollinators prefer "messy," ie, wild, gardens, so I try to leave plenty of dead stalks etc for them. Thank you for making a home for the wild at your house. <3 xo
You're so right about the wonderful effects of spending time out in the Natural world, away from the world of Man. My Sis had a heart attack and hemiplegic stroke, and that is what ìs healing her anď helping her recover. ❤
Nice to visit your yard! We have meandering paths instead of lawns.
Thank you for this. I'd never heard of 'touch grass'. I love hearing about your garden.
Hey - new image of you! Nice! And I did a double take at the Eastern Cottontails, because that scene looks exactly like what I see in my own yard. Alas, my time online is ample. Between working, reading interesting essays, and writing my own, I spend a lot of time looking at screens. At least I can say that 95% of the time there, and the content I come across, is curated. So, less of the feelings of assault that come from random scrolling.
As part of my work, I invited a local native bee expert (and friend) to be a guest on a recent lunch and learn. He and you have inspired me to work on creating more wild zones. My yard areas have never been manicured, and there are diverse species there, many of them native. But, I'm hoping to get a little more intentional about what grows there. Thanks for the lovely nudge.
Oh! Grounding! I wrote this almost exactly two years ago. I'm a little less disciplined about it now (One of Covid's gifts was how it gave many of us more time!) but still enjoy freeing my toes!
https://elizabethbeggins.substack.com/p/ground-rules
I feel as you do about gardening, springtime and the sense of calm and wellbeing I feel spending hours outdoors. Ironically, the more nature happenings that I have to write about in spring, the less I want to be sitting at a laptop writing about them. I too have a large native garden for wildlife habitat (though my urban yard is likely much smaller than yours), and I loved seeing your wild planting and visiting snapping turtle. They say animals/pollinators prefer "messy," ie, wild, gardens, so I try to leave plenty of dead stalks etc for them. Thank you for making a home for the wild at your house. <3 xo