Oh, hello! I was so busy I didn't see you standing there!
You know, working at a nature center has many benefits. Besides the pleasure of the company of others enjoying the same work and a feeling that you are contributing to the beauty of the park, a big plus is that you get a lot of freebies! Seems like every time I go in to work I leave with another something. Whenever they have more starts than they need they tray them up and leave them in the break room for whoever wants them. I've accumulated so many starts that I've had to pot them up and line my deck with them. I have coral bells, dill, verbena, a trumpet vine that I bought, and last week I came home with a sack full of dwarf iris in a variety of colors! I've already found places to put the iris but the rest is out here awaiting their new space when I find it.
I keep a pan of water here on the corner of the deck railing as a little bath for the birds. It sits just behind my butterfly bush that is bursting with blooms and I can see all this from my kitchen door.
Well, I've got to get back to work now.
Come again when you can stay a little longer and I'll show you what's new.
12 comments:
Oh Kate, I wish I could sit in your kitchen with you after a stroll around your garden, drink a cup of tea and have a nice long chat. What fun you are having. Your garden is growing in leaps and bounds.
Love the Journal page. Sounds like you are having a good time working with others and gleaning some fun plant's. That yard is going to be wonderful. :))
What a lucky woman you are; I'd love to have just half of those plants. Great painting.
WOnderful sketch! So good to hear about your job and all the benefits. You will have the best garden in town!
its good to hear you so cheerful and having fun doing what you love. plus benefiting your own garden to boot! Hurrah.
Katie sounds like you are having a wonderful time working at the nature center. Freebies like that would make me sooo happy. :) Thanks so much for stopping by my place and leaving such a nice comment. Love your journal page. Hugs! deb
Gardening was my passion for so many years and now I get to reap the beauty of my hard work of yester year! Lovely book cover too!
Working in the garden is like meditating :)
Your journal page looks so nice!
Today we have some rain (much needed)
Tomorrow will be sunny again.
But I have lots to do in the studio from Saturday so no time to gardening. But in July I hope to have my house and garden in good order again
Enjoy your beautiful garden Kate!
Oh, what a lovely and perfect job you have found!!! I hope your summer will be wonderful, your garden full, your palette filled with collor and sun kisses your face.
roxanne
wow - all those freebies - thats a benefit of work at a garden oasis - how lovely. Love also your journal page, and thinking about the pan of water and the flowers, it all sounds delightful
Wonderful story painting. The hat is perfect,,,I'm seeing you take it off & toss it there as you reach for the iced tea.
Love that you have a little bath for your winged friends.
It should look so good outside my kitchen door!
Hi Katie - it's been a while since I last visited! I enjoyed your vacation photos - looks like you had some fabulous hikes! I see that you're now involved with a nature centre - sounds like you're enjoying that in more ways than one! Lovely sketch too!
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