Spring Equinox is HERE!
Ahhhh, it has been a long wait, but Spring is officially here!!!! Usually Winter is my favorite season because the city gets really quiet and there is a cool calm which can be felt all around. But this Winter was not one of my favorites. About a month ago the Antique shop across the street from my home had a fire. It has devastated the neighborhood and it just doesn’t feel the same sitting on my porch anymore. The building has a really interesting history! It used to be a Zen center, but originally started out as a Piggly Wiggly at the same time my house was built in 1916. The fire was so traumatic, and unfortunately my husband, kitten and I breathed in a lot of smoke when it happened. My lungs ached for a few weeks afterward, and now I’m just left watching the antique dealers trying to salvage the remains of their precious antiques.
My husband and I purchased our home in 2022, so we are fairly new to the neighborhood. What I love about this neighborhood is that it is multi cultural and there are people from all stripes living here. Our neighbors are refugees, and they have been very kind to us! They help us out in so many ways, and we return the favor.
My white roses…hopefully they will bloom again this year!
Rose hips from my rose bushes
I spent some time in the yard today, to celebrate the Equinox! My husband and I have a nickname for our house, the Bird Haven, because he is into feeding the birds. We are getting huge flocks of birds at the moment because migration patterns have begun! All manner of wildlife come through my back yard. There are opossums, lots of rabbits, raccoons, squirrels, chipmunks, hawks, neighborhood cats. I even saw a coyote dart out of my yard and trot down the center of the road one night!
When we moved in here there was an old rotting tree back here, we had to have it removed because it was on the verge of falling down. I wanted to give back to the Earth, because we took from it. And that was how the bird area was born!
I got these statues for the front porch when we moved in…they turned out to be a sign of the Bird Haven that was to become of the back yard!
The wildflower patch needs raked, the front flower beds need planted. I am hoping to plant some veggies in containers this year, and am still working out the details to make it happen. If there is one thing I know, it is that the wheel of the year is constantly spinning…bringing fresh signs of life season by season.
Vintage plate with a depiction of Jesus…it was discovered in my yard!
