Time to REPLANT

Every year some of our plants/shrubs don't make it through the winter or through the crazy trimmings our HOA landscaping crew give them to make them all look like round lumps. But that's the price you pay for being retired and living in a community that provides your landscaping pruning/irrigation needs. So hubby is replanting some dead plants or misshapen ones.

This pruned or mutilated cactus looks like a pineapple now.

It's hard work digging out the old plant first.

A real perfectionist planting a new Hawthorne bush takes awhile.

Love all the blooming cacti

Amazing how these blooms return each year.

POETRY in the PARK 2024

Time to travel to ZION PARK for the annual POETRY IN THE PARK started in 2010 by LaVerna Johnson then I took charge for 8 years, no PIP because of Covid in 2021, then Reuben Wadsworth took charge for the past 3 years as I retired. Interesting to attend every year as a paid participant even when in charge and realize now at age 83 few people remember the beginnings or history of PIP, but it continues under Reuben's leadership. A fun yearly activity of creativity inspired by the beauty of Zion Park. 

Driving into Springdale entrance to Zion Park-1 hr from home

Snow capped peaks highlight the jagged beauty of Zion.

Lovely drive with new sights around each turn in the road

Inspiration for poetry and amazement at God's creations

About 40 poets of all ages-high school through retirement.

Our teachers: (l-r) Brock Denier & Shanan Ballam from USU

THINK SPRING

It's now been 70 degrees, could SPRING be far off. It's enticing to watch the buds forming on our little peach tree and on the trees in the yard who are anxious to grow new leaves. Even the cacti are blooming. But still STORM CLOUDS threaten with blustering winds and rain drops so winter isn't over just playing with us. We all have SEASONS in our lives too of CHALLENGE and REFRESHING NEW GROWTH as we experience our own seasons.