The color green
The lovely garden of the Canadian Pavilion at EPCOT Center, August 2003
“When I look out the window, I exhale a prayer of thanks for the color green…for the simple acts of faith like planting a garden that helped see us through another spring, another summer.” — Barbara Kingsolver
Many times over the years I have felt deep gratitude for the color green, especially as it reappears each spring, brightening lawns and gardens, or in the heat of late summer when it provides cool shade above and soft relief from too-hot pavement underfoot. I love all the colors; it would be almost impossible to pick only one favorite. But I truly cannot imagine living without the green of the outdoors. Even in fall and winter, I look for the evergreen trees that accent the golden autumn foliage, or adorn an otherwise barren landscape.
If you’re feeling especially agitated or frustrated, or tired and discouraged, try giving yourself a tiny gift of grace: take a brief interval to focus on the many shades of green with which nature paints this season. Make a few minutes to step outside, if time and weather permit; if not, looking through a window (or at colorful garden magazines) will suffice. It almost always helps me. I hope it will do the same for you!
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Good Sunday morning, my dear friend! Shades of green have always fascinated me. Living in the coastal area has me looking at marsh grasses recently as they take on a Spring green that I love. Enjoy this day and know I’ll enjoy Spring and a sweet tea Out On The Porch! 🩷
Good morning Sheila! I’ll take some tea myself, without sugar as I learned to drink it. But Southern sweet tea is a delicacy that I’ll never forget. 😀
Good morning, Julia!
We are having a wet sorting, it seems, too make up for the dry and unusually warm winter we had. I’m starting to believe there may be enough water for a garden this year.
I bought some Okinawa Sweet Potatoe slips and some asparagus roots to plant this year. Some new things to learn about!
What garden will you have this year? Do you get enough rain through the season, or do you have to hand water?
Hi Susan, I’ve had scant time for my garden so far this year, but the flowers have been beautiful this springtime. Others have commented that they’ve been unusually brilliant this year, everywhere in this area. We had a rainy spring so that’s nothing unusual. Not sure why the flowers are out in profusion, but I’m enjoying it! Thus far I’ve only run my sprinklers once this year. So yes, a lot of rain. I do some hand watering here and there, but it’s mostly automated.