Tag: nature

  • Love and Late-Blooming Flowers

    Love and Late-Blooming Flowers

    Discover how unexpected garden blooms reflect the resilient beauty of life and love in “Love and Late Blooming Flowers.” Mother Nature is toying with me, reminding me that even when it seems too late in Life’s seasons for some things, some things have a way of blooming unexpectedly, long past when I thought they would.…

  • Hurricane Isaac Evacuation and Lessons from the Camino

      Hurricane Isaac evacuation time?  Yes?  No?  I’ve lived in the Niceville-Destin Florida area of the Gulf Coast since 1983, so I’m accustomed to making decisions about tropical storm and hurricane evacuations.   By the time any tropical storm is at the door of the Gulf of Mexico, I have to start thinking about whether…

  • How a Pagan Goes to Church

    If a pagan goes to church in the Cathedral of Nature, then there’s no finer carpet than this beautiful green moss under my bare feet on a Sunday morning. As a child, I always loved finding this kind of moss on the ground, thick and lush.  I never dreamed that my side yard would one…

  • How a Pagan Goes to Church

    In today’s visit to the Cathedral of Nature, the morning raindrops were still on the elephant ears and roses in the garden. When I first moved into my house, the former tenants had planted shrubs in the front garden, punctuated by elephant ears.  Each leaf was wider than my chest and brought to mind some…

  • How a Pagan Goes to Church

    This week’s visit to the Cathedral of Nature as always brings wonder and joy to my heart.  Last year, I picked up an unusual lily in the supermarket, brought it home, and let it bloom out.  When the lily had died back a bit, I planted it at my front door, half-convinced that I’d never…