Dear Reader:

Well. I have officially made the “ole’ lady in her gardening hat” status. I slept in late yesterday, to almost nine. So by the time I got up, dressed, and ate a little breakfast the sun was up high and shining down, hotly, throughout the garden.

I searched all over for my sunglasses but couldn’t find them so I decided to put on the big hat I wore from Walmart to the garden party last Monday. My neighbor Vickie was outside working in her yard and just laughed ….she said I was too dressed up to work in the yard….I agreed but I was just watering this time.

Look how beautiful our rose bush is…thanks to Vickie with all her good food she keeps feeding the bush. The second “wave” of rose blooms are just as fabulous as the first sighting. I love them!

Every day when I go out to tend to my garden I feel like I am going to school because I learn something new each day from one of my plants. Things like perseverance, wants and needs, fleeting beauty and the brevity of it all. Which, of course, makes every day with a bloom more special.

For me….summer starts off with a colorful flower in the kitchen window sill….this little red gerber just “sings” summer’s melodies….it embodies what summer should look and feel like….

The quote for the title of this blog is right…I do believe in the seed fairy. Anne gave me six moon flower seeds and told me how to plant and protect them for the first week.

Went to check on them today and look what I saw! There really are fairy seeds.

In fact…I added  a wheelbarrow filled with fairies including a miniature moon gate Anne made a couple of years ago and they live in their own little wildflower meadow. One has a bike and the others are having tea parties and picnics.

Now that I go outside each day to “play” with my flowers….I realize that in a perfect world children all around the world should have school outside in a garden too….the garden teaches math, science, history, and through English promotes storytelling and poetry about its unbelievable beauty. (The very best of school…a living school with no computer screens.)

The “secrets of life” are found in the garden. So every child graduating from “The Garden School” would be fully equipped to began their journey in the world waiting outside the garden gates.

So until tomorrow: “Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”  (Marcel Proust)

“Today is my favorite day”  Winnie the Pooh

Delights of the Day:

*Happy Birthday to Libby today! I think she would be the first to agree that birthdays are no longer something to dread but instead are more like a badge of honor.

Another year, still here, and thriving. After a recent medical scare, I imagine this birthday looks mighty fine. Happy Birthday Libby from all the Ya’s!

*Harriett Edwards’ husband, Ed, has been in a lot of pain from his back…I know she would appreciate prayers that the doctors find the problem and resolve it quickly.