Soon our trailer will be for sale and time away will look different from what it has for the past 25 years. We're gettin' old. What better reason to pivot and find a new way of having fun. Today, two friends helped us practise our new life.
We introduced them to our new favourite garden, Kawartha Family Farm.
Some flowers are such odd things. Achillea (Yarrow) Moonshine. I guess you could imagine a whole bunch of moons shining together in each flower head.
There are still some alliums blooming in all their glory.
We explored the outer edges of these gardens today, places which might not be maintained in the same manner as the others. We were rewarded with a view of this wonderful rose bush. What a colour!
The light was fairly harsh today. Some plants still photographed very well. I wonder if it is because they are so saturated with colour.
Coneflowers are no longer just purple these days.
There is something about the atmosphere in this garden that makes you want to stay and take your time.
It's been 11 days since we last visited this garden. I was amazed at how beautiful the double daisies were still. They seem to be a long-lived variety.
One of our travel friends suggested that we check out Burleigh Falls since we were so close. Good idea! What a peaceful place. I love how they've intentionally re-wilded the shores with native plants.
Only a short distance north of the good farm land and we were on the Canadian Shield. I felt like I might see one of the Group of Seven come sauntering around the corner.
Even the pines looked like they could have painted them.
I think we are going to like this new stage in our life and I'm thankful for friends who helped us test it out.
Recently, a dear friend Lesley Boileau posted this poem. I saved it on a stickie on my desktop for such a time as this.
I Got Kin
Plant
So that your own heart
Will grow.
Love
So God will think,
“Ahhhhhh,
I got kin in that body!
I should start inviting that soul over
For coffee and
Rolls.”
Sing
Because this is a food
Our starving world
Needs.
Laugh
Because that is the purest
Sound.
Hafiz, 1315-1390, Persia (Iran)
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