A snowstorm has dumped six inches of snow in our area, much to the children's delight! Their daddy brought home a new sled, adding sparkles to their already sparkly eyes. The gardener of the family is enjoying the snow from the bow window. Birds in my front yard are delightful to watch. I have a big basket of unshelled, unsalted peanuts on a stump in the one garden. The woodpeckers and bluejays find such pleasure in that basket of peanuts! We enjoy watching them fly in, choose a peanut and head off to some private spot to shell their delectable delight. Sometimes that spot is a tree close enough for us to watch from a window. I'm waiting for the cardinals and chickadees to fly in. They usually find what they need in hedgerows and the woods till about the middle of January when they come to our feeder to supplement their menu.
The garden is beautiful in the snow. I do not trim many of my perennials and shrubs in the fall simply because they provide food for the birds in the form of seeds and also they give character to the garden during the gray days. The red twigs of the red osier dogwood shrubs I planted several summers ago are really beautiful this winter. I have them in a small garden framed by a large Colorado blue spruce behind. The blue and the white in the snow is gorgeous, completed by the wispy brown of the grass between the dogwoods. Another beautiful place in the snow at our place is the two spruce trees just outside our kitchen window. The snow on the needles is so lovely and looks just like a scene on a calendar page!
I got my first seed catalog yesterday. It sure gave me the itch to plant a vegetable garden again! I get this way every year. Carrying it out is another story, especially keeping after the weeds. I have this dream of having rasied beds for vegetable gardens with pebbly stones in between. I do not know how to make these beds myself and I'm having a hard time getting my husband, who was used to the commercial type garden since he grew up in a large family, convinced to envision this type of garden. Any suggestions out there for me?
Blessings to all this Christmas season. May Christ, who is the reason for every season, be your constant Guide and Lord of your life all the days of your life.
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