In the meantime, something pretty to look at

This morning I got to work a few hours in the new garden area, cleared under the power line by the tree cutters. I did it as a form of blessing the new space.  I pulled miles of potato vine, greenbrier and Virginia creeper that got exposed in the cut.  I took my pruners and went over every cut they made to the smaller trees, bushes and vines, with a prayer of thank you, and leaving them with a kinder cut.  Experience has taught me to honor my place as a steward of the earth by embracing change when it happens. I transplanted a dozen loquat saplings, plus 20+ cuttings from my arbicola and turk’s cap, clipped two days before the tree cutters came in.   I gave thanks to Mother Earth, to the Great Spirit, for leaving me with such a big beautiful new garden space.  I smudged with sage and sweetgrass, cedar and tobacco, to carry my prayers on smoke and wind.  I haven’t decided yet what I’ll plant. It’s the perfect place (and planting time!) for an herb garden, winter squash, celery, greens, beets, brussels sprouts, carrots, onions.  We’ll see.  I’m entertaining different ideas.