Cottage Garden

Today I spent all day with my friend Laurie who lives in the sweetest cottage in the country on almost half an acre. She has trees dripping with pears and apples and grape vines full of not quite ripe concord grapes which she's said I can have. I picked the prettiest Gravenstein's and pears and brought home a large box of each.

We took a short walk across the road and a large field to a piece of property that's for sale. Just for fun we imagined being neighbors and Max made us walk up to the second story of the very large creepy old barn full of bird and mouse droppings and dripping with spider webs. I love the house I'm in so much that I have no desire to move ever again...but Laurie's spot on earth is so lovely that it was fun to imagine living across the road from her.

Hanging out in Laurie's garden reminds me what I want mine to be: full of flowers and fruit. I have so much to do to transform my own much smaller space and it reminded me to relax into the process. I don't have a huge amount of space but I'd say I've got more than enough to create my own small version of paradise.

What a lovely lush day.