Yo howdy All Y’all – it is a beautiful day to visit our downtown sanctuary. Sunflowers and zexmenia still bloom yellow along 12th Street; white rain lilies, moonflowers and some random pink, orange and purple blooms line the alley. Goldenrod, yellow senna, plateau golden-eye, orange turks-cap, red shrimp-tail, purple and white asters, lingering lantana, rock-rose,...
“Thank you for your patience with me!” exclaims the bedraggled weed growing in the cracks. “You’ve now witnessed my blooms many seasons!” say the various “ugly” dried stalks of seeds and dead leaves filling gaps in the midst that feed and shelter the singing birds. Thank you beloved Church folk, for your patience with the...
Yo howdy All Y’all! It is a beautiful day to be in our gardens. The wisdom in growing weeds is that we can trust that what grows will be resilient. Some very slowly grow but rooted in solid rock, some grow fast and spreading, each and all with surprising benefits and blooms. God’s Grace demonstrating...
Bumblebees, butterflies and bunnies! Yo howdy, I was gardening last week just before sunset, in the narrow patch between the sidewalk and 12th Street. It was a beautiful day. I saw a blur, felt a soft bump on an inside ankle, and watched a little bunny scamper-hop up the sidewalk and disappear into the yellow...
Yo howdy! Let’s be joyful, folks, united in our Faith in Creator/Creation. Let’s in celebration of this gift of this life blessed with an abundance of sunflowers! Gardening with God has given us all a chance to share in summertime sunflower ministry! From our loaves and fishes-like garden we can harvest a sunflower bloom for...
Yo howdy All Y’All! So, what is this? Passersby often ask, approaching from every direction. “These are gardens of gratitude for the glorious miracle of you. Of each of us.” Thank you. May a sense of the peace and justice of Love be with you in life’s garden now. These are wildings in our downtown...
