Love all of this. Everything is a process and sometimes I need help remembering not to dive in head first. I might take your wildflower idea and see if I can apply it to my front yard, which is a wasteland. HOA be damned!
I wasn’t able to be in this space for the past two years. But it feels so empowering to notice the shift, the claiming of my lawn, the final frontier of shedding husbands.
Love the wildflower meadow! And the idea that you’re capable of caring for both the outside and the inside of your house. My back yard, too, looks like a place for traveling musicians, though perhaps more of a graveyard for stuffies that Rocket has stolen and brought outside to die. But we’re planting a veggie garden out there this year, and someday I’ll take on the rest of the yard… baby steps.
Oh my god you have no idea the desiccated stuffies I extracted from the yard after Tigger. FYI you were one of my primary inspirations for sinking into this pastime! ♥️
Good for you and Happy April! I am not a birder, but yesterday morning on my trail walk I saw not one - but two roadrunners scramble across my path. I have lived in this neighborhood and walked these wooded trails for 6 years and had never seen one before. It was almost enough to turn me into a birder. Also, we have the constant search for beauty in common. (My publication is named Distracted by Pretty Things because I am.)
"It felt like waking up from a coma to behold the earth for the first time—being aware of beauty and actually having interest in aesthetics must mean I’m out of trauma mode."
These are such true words!!!
I am also thinking of re-wilding some of my backyard. And including a" living hedge". You should look it up!
I'm 100% here for front yard meadows! (and can recommend resources if you'd like.) This is fantastic. Figuring out how to view the work in nature as joy and not (only) work has been an important mindset shift for me. One way I approach it is to try to prioritize that work on days/in weather when I am more comfortable. I dislike the heat, and while I can do work outdoors in the heat I'd rather not thanks. ;) So I might shift my schedule around because hey it's nice out NOW and I know for me that will make a big difference in my attitude about the work I do/did (like I'll hardly consider it work if it's beautiful out! Particularly if the apple trees are in bloom.)
This is beautiful, Steph. I went crazy on my front yard yesterday and wound up with band-aids on both hands, because it was rather impulsive. It’s still a mess, but a DIFFERENT mess, so it counts.
Such exciting times! Sending you the best book vibes possible for that submission. You’ve got this. And love the idea of a meadow lawn. Go April!
Thank you!! 💛
Love all of this. Everything is a process and sometimes I need help remembering not to dive in head first. I might take your wildflower idea and see if I can apply it to my front yard, which is a wasteland. HOA be damned!
Screw the HOA!! 😍
Currently working on my submission! Excited for it!
I am excited too!!
So much to say - Redacted! Plantings! Meadow! But I just loved this line - “My lawn is mine” yes yes yes.
I wasn’t able to be in this space for the past two years. But it feels so empowering to notice the shift, the claiming of my lawn, the final frontier of shedding husbands.
Love the wildflower meadow! And the idea that you’re capable of caring for both the outside and the inside of your house. My back yard, too, looks like a place for traveling musicians, though perhaps more of a graveyard for stuffies that Rocket has stolen and brought outside to die. But we’re planting a veggie garden out there this year, and someday I’ll take on the rest of the yard… baby steps.
P. S. Dessicated stuffie extraction--the band.
Oh my god you have no idea the desiccated stuffies I extracted from the yard after Tigger. FYI you were one of my primary inspirations for sinking into this pastime! ♥️
Good for you and Happy April! I am not a birder, but yesterday morning on my trail walk I saw not one - but two roadrunners scramble across my path. I have lived in this neighborhood and walked these wooded trails for 6 years and had never seen one before. It was almost enough to turn me into a birder. Also, we have the constant search for beauty in common. (My publication is named Distracted by Pretty Things because I am.)
I love that pub name!! And omg to a roadrunner!!
Omg YEEEEESSSSS to all of this, Steph
I’m literally crying right now
Thank youuuuuu for being YOUUUUU!!!
That made my day!! You have no idea. Thank you. 🫶🥰😭
"It felt like waking up from a coma to behold the earth for the first time—being aware of beauty and actually having interest in aesthetics must mean I’m out of trauma mode."
These are such true words!!!
I am also thinking of re-wilding some of my backyard. And including a" living hedge". You should look it up!
I'm 100% here for front yard meadows! (and can recommend resources if you'd like.) This is fantastic. Figuring out how to view the work in nature as joy and not (only) work has been an important mindset shift for me. One way I approach it is to try to prioritize that work on days/in weather when I am more comfortable. I dislike the heat, and while I can do work outdoors in the heat I'd rather not thanks. ;) So I might shift my schedule around because hey it's nice out NOW and I know for me that will make a big difference in my attitude about the work I do/did (like I'll hardly consider it work if it's beautiful out! Particularly if the apple trees are in bloom.)
This is beautiful, Steph. I went crazy on my front yard yesterday and wound up with band-aids on both hands, because it was rather impulsive. It’s still a mess, but a DIFFERENT mess, so it counts.