Business and Blossoms

My work life changed recently (busier and more stressful) and it's left me feeling a little out of sorts so blogging has taken a back seat the last couple of weeks.  But spending time in my garden has been as important as ever to me.  I find that when life gets hectic, my time in the yard becomes more valuable.  

Although I've managed to keep up on a few of the important gardening tasks like planting my tomatoes and zucchini, I haven't had a lot of time to clean up and make everything tidy the way I like it to be.  And that bothers me some times.  

But then I remember a poem that was featured in American Life in Poetry* a couple years ago written by Carol Snow:  

Tour
Near a shrine in Japan he'd swept the path
and then placed camellia blossoms there.

Or -- we had no way of knowing -- he'd swept the path
between fallen camellias.

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Here's a picture I took a couple days ago.  It's a picture of a mess.  But I think I'll just leave it this way for a few days.

Orange blossoms and bacopa

*If you are at all interested in poetry, I highly recommend subscribing to American Life in Poetry which is a program started by former U.S. Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser, and supported by the Library of Congress.  Every Monday you will receive an e-mail with an introduction from Kooser and a brief poem like the one above.  I am consistently inspired, touched and edified by these poems.