As a garden lover, I find it particularly rewarding to enjoy the delights of discovering shoots appearing on plants that have appeared dead during the winter months. Though I must say that winter in South East Queensland is not to be compare with winter in the northern hemisphere, but it is what I have become accustomed to.
Joy of joys, my Jasmine has produced enough blooms this year to cut and take indoors, Oh, how I love jasmine, the flowers are so pretty and the fragrance is just beautiful, I love waking at night an smelling the fragrance that pervades the house. The azaleas are blooming, such delicate shades and blousey flowers. Already two of our rosebushes are in flower. The glorious spring green is evident on neighbourhood trees and I know that it will only be a matter of weeks before the gorgeous jacaranda trees will come into flower, glorious canopies of purple flowers. I'll photograph them for you when the time comes, once seen never forgotten.
Spring seems particularly poignant for me this year, as we have just experienced a family bereavement. This has caused me to consider afresh the brevity of life and the certainty of death.
Its so easy to breeze through life not giving much thought to what happens after death, after all it seems so unlikely as we dash about managing our busy twenty-first century lives. We expect to wake up in the morning and return home after work. But we are all only a heartbeat away from leaving this place that we call home and it behoves us all to take the time while we have it to consider, and research into this most important and inevitable event. It is something worth time and consideration to examine the big questions for ourselves and not assume that 'she'll be right", or that long time family beliefs will get you to the right place.
Let me share with you some spring blessings from my garden.
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