Blooming Out of Season

Well here we go again! I actually began blogging a couple years ago with this very topic, gardening. We always have the best of intentions in this area but never seem to get it quite right. Armed with top soil, gifted broccoli and cauliflower sprouts I give it another try. With great expectations of a little green patch!

My crazy Red Head and I planted 3 cauliflower. It was well past their October~January season but what the heck...let's give it a try!

We dug places for 3 broccoli, them also past their season which ended in January. We watered the new ground and hoped for the best : )

As you can see those little gifted seedlings did quite well. Two of the cauliflower just never really got going but one held on as long as it could. It actually grew a tennis ball sized harvest before it kicked the bucket. Only one of the broccoli died while the other two grew and grew and grew. To be honest I had no idea what to expect. I have never seen a broccoli plant. I typically make a trip to the produce stand and pick up a couple packaged heads with out much thought about what I'm steaming up for dinner. I wasn't really sure when I needed to harvest the crop from these two waist high plants.

Well, apparently I waited a little to long. Upon my arrival to the garden that morning I was guite surprised to find beautiful little yellow flowers all over the heads of my broccoli...they bloomed! I had no idea we eat the flower buds. I won't lie I was bummer to find they had bloomed but at the same time pleasently surprised to realize we eat the buds.

Amazing to me as I write about my simple adventures in gardening how God can teach me. I think while plunking the keyboard how he can use us, even when we think our "season" is over or has passed. God's plan is so much bigger than we will ever be able to fathom. His plans will succeed, and He will be glorified.

Many are the plans in a man's heart,
but it is the LORD's purpose that prevails.

Proverbs 19:21

Just a thought to ponder:

We can choose to keep ourselves within self made boundaries or we can bloom out of season!

Simplicity

It's now that I am reminded of how simple pleasures can excite, uplift and soothe.

Tuesday's dawn upon us, we stretch, nourish and begin our mind expanding.

I woke them only after taking my time. We move through the warming almost spring morning. They sit in tree forts and tree stands maybe trying to get closer to Him. The sun warming they're backs and the sky's expanse for them to dream, sing, and praise Him. Daddy arrives and the day is underway.

Lessons learned and lunch on the table.

Little man is out in the world again and we hear him coming. Barreling through the laundry door, he's yelling "eggs, I found eggs, The chickens laid eggs!" We aren't hungry, the adrenaline has filled our bellies and we are stunned. With wide eyes we all run...grown mommy and daddy, the frog princess, we run. Our feet stomping the new sprigs of grass, we follow him hoping it's true. Six months have passed...there's been much waiting and much watching. Sure enough there they are, two freshly laid brown eggs! And we linger for one hour and one half soaking up the moment, in awestruck excitement. We are proud! Proud of our patience, love and simplicity.