Sitting on a porch on a summer day, listening to cars drive down the street, the birds chirp and kids play. It has a way of calming you, making you at ease and helping you to slow down. So many times people just get in a hurry and they don’t actually stop to live life. It seems that people are in a rush, to go somewhere or do something. At the end of it all, we wind up just rushing ourselves to our graves.
If we aren’t careful we look back on our lives and wonder where the days, weeks, months and years have gone. Seems like we are always pushing forward to “tomorrow” and never really living today. We have to “arrive” somewhere, but when we get there, we just set off for the next place. Gods creation and taking time to enjoy it simply puts you in touch with Him. Which slows you right down and puts reality right in front of you.
I love the smell of green grass after its mowed, the smell of pine trees, the smell of flowers and trees when they bloom. The smell of spring I suppose, its so wonderful, full of life. A few dead leaves blowing around from last fall, lots of rain to help the plants grow, the breeze its self is even calming. Its no wonder farmers are so calm, being around Gods creation all year round must simply set them at ease.
It does however never cease to amaze me that weeds can grow anywhere. I planted grass recently and I had to water that stuff for 10 days to get it to grow. Yet it can be bone dry for a month and weeds will still be growing. I don’t know how they do it, its crazy. Its like the renegade plants are great at surviving and multiplying even in the worth of conditions. And my goodness, the number of variety of weeds that can grow in a yard and a garden is simply ridiculous. I love to grow a garden each year and I swear. If I have to pull 1 weed, I have to pull 10,000 in my garden. Grant it, its of a decent size, but still its nuts. I put down weed fabric to keep the weeds under control, but still they find the little openings. All the while trying to steal the nutrients from my plants. And you can’t spray them with poison, else it might get in your food and then your worse off.
Thats not to mention the 4 footed friends of all varieties that like to come eat your food. This year I gave up my garden to pursue other things. Ill work on saving for a house and a boat and learning how to really have a great lawn. Well come back to the garden element another year. Besides, my kids squash and kill enough of the plants and fruits as it is, lol. Perhaps when they are old enough to be productive, we will do it again.
Life is just what it seems, a blip here on earth before we go to heaven or hell. Spring is a wonderful time to remind me of life and I love it. I just have to bring myself to slow down and “smell the roses” as it were.