“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
- Frances Hodgson Burnette, The Secret Garden
Project 365: #318
The garden is a huge surprise for me now, as we arrived in summer when most of the secrets in the garden had already been revealed, and the it was also hugely overgrown and weedy. So after winter, as soon as the weather allowed, I began weeding, pruning, sprucing...waiting to see what would surprise me with the warming weather. I was so disappointed that there was not a single tulip or daffodil, but my disappointment soon dissipated, with the flowering of the beautiful trees, like the dogwood, and weeping cherry, and the greening of the branches. Another beautiful surprise, sprouting life from a dead-looking vine is the clematis, whose stunning pink flowers are all bursting open. The vine is on a trellis over the gate to our garden, beckoning you in to see what other hidden gems you may discover. If you look closely enough, you find amazing secrets and surprises, much like life and our adventure. Just when you are disappointed in something, you look somewhere else, and are surprised with some beauty and something miraculous! You just have to know where to look, or have the patience to look in places that you had not thought of before!
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