Christmas brunch awaits;
Lavender cream scones, ham quiche,
with cranberry juice red.
Happy Haiku Day!
Haiku is a form of Japanese Poetry. In English, it consists of 3 lines. Each line has:
5 syllables
7 syllables
5 syllables
It often includes references to nature, especially the season and your experience of it. Post a haiku today!
Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time. “~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
As I get older, I have simplified the holidays. Most gifts are bought throughout the year, decorating kept to a minimum, baking delicacies few, and gatherings short but sweet. Green gifts of houseplants and botantical soaps given at all the gatherings … I want to feel like a child again this Christmas … the magic of just being …
Garden art is an expression of one’s soul… Seeds packets, weathered hand trowels, a stalled tractor, the resting plow, pea shoots, sunflowers face the sun or lie their full heads to rest, rainbow reflections from the water-flowing sprinkler, dirt-cladded rocks, green garlic sprouts, worn ruts in the field road, sharp rows of green, bee’s visit to the flowering lavendar … all spiritual gifts to receive at the farm and share … an artist’s palette.
So I have in mind to use my abundance of dried lavendar into soothing, aromatic soap for Christmas gifts and sell at the farmer’s markets this winter. Bought some simple molds. I thought to use creative ideas, and welcome yours. What do you use for your soap molds? An antique or something contemporary?
Deanna Greens and Garden Art 