Afternoon Sun

I have a comfy leather chair in my home office where I often write and can look out three windows.

Today it is sunny and breezy.

I’ve just been working on some spring clearing, so my view is better.

The garden is dug and prepped for some planting.

I trimmed back some goofy concord grape vines that insist on being productive even though I have given them very erratic care.

The yard abuts my neighbors, John and Amy, and their two daughters. They have two horses in a field ( I can watch them from my chair) – a big black horse and a tiny one called Butterscotch.

The other neighbors, Katy and Nick, also have two children – a bit younger than John and Amy’s.

We’re a good crew. Even in the days of Covid 19 we can be neighborly…yet keep safe practices.

John and Amy also have a trampoline – a nice one with safe walls – a huge hit with the children. It is not unusual to hear children at all hours bouncing and laughing.

We have two fire pits – both of which have seen a workout in the last six weeks.

From what I read of our health crisis we are extremely fortunate. We care about one another, take care of one another, and appreciate one another – in a troubling time.

I’ve been preoccupied over the past two and one half years with developing a farm….and realized in the last month (with forced isolation) that I have neglected a very dear home asset.

So I’m headed in a recovery direction with home, garden, and yard.

It’s a lovely feeling to recover a landscape…at least for me.

We humans are supposed to be stewards. I think many of us take that seriously. At least in my community folks work hard at caring for their homes and property.

The afternoon sun gives perspective.