Taking a Closer Look
"Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God,
nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a seed in the blank earth and the result thereof."
I have been reading Celia Thaxter's book, An Island Garden".
I was intrigued by the things I learned of her as I shared last week
in my A Return to Loveliness post.
Celia so loved gardening, every aspect of it. She transformed
a portion of a rocky island off the coast of New Hampshire and
Maine into a garden that was written of by well known authors
and painted by well known artists of her time.
"Like the musician, the painter, the poet, and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made. And he is born to happiness in this vale of tears, to a certain amount of the purest joy that earth can give her children, joy that is tranquil, innocent, uplifting, unfailing.
Given a little patch of ground, with the time to take care of it, with tools to work it and seeds to plant in it, he has all he needs, and Nature with her dews and suns and showers and sweet airs gives him her aid".
Celia took great lengths to nurture seedlings - to know and to understand each plant she coaxed in her garden on Appledore Island. She took great lengths to understand the needs and the enemies of her precious flowers and sought diligently for their remedy.
"God Almightie first planted a Garden" says Lord Bacon. "And indeed it is the Purest of Humane Pleasures, it is the Greatest Refreshment to the Spirit of Man'. Never Were truer words spoken" - Celia noted.
When the days get long, hot and dry - I will think of and be inspired by Celia - a gardening Kindred Spirit who so loved her plants - that inspires me to take a closer look.
She noted that one of the best tools to every gardener is a magnifying glass. With it you can see the intricate wonders in the flowers that grace your garden.
"Yet the sowing of a seed seems a very simple matter, but I always feel as if it were a sacred thing among the mysteries of God. Standing by that space of blank and motionless ground, I think of all it hods for me of beauty and delight, and I am filled wit joy at the thought that I may be the magician to who power is given to summon so sweet a pageant from the silent and passive soil".
I am sharing this post with our Delightsome friend Cielo
with
The House in the Roses'
Wishing you a most Delightsome week!
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