Grace

I have wonderful, amazing, fantastic friends. I have been so, so blessed by the relationships in my life.

My dear Amanda Grace has a lovely habit of crashing at my place on her way to other destinations. That basically makes her a genius! I keep telling her that "2 seconds" isn't long enough, but we do see each other at other times and I love love love the little impromptu visits. =)

Don't let these pictures fool you. Usually we are freakishly photogenic when we are together. No joke.

Planting Community

There is a community garden near the house where I dogsit. I'd say there are about 15 to 18 plots in it. I saw it at the beginning of spring when all the gardeners were getting their plots ready and it was cool because each plot was at a different stage. Some were covered in weeds still, some were at various stages of being planted and, some even had some sprouts coming up. I went back today and it was cool to see the changes that had happened. These people all seem like pros, too. There were all different kinds of stakes and cages for tomatoes to grow on, one plot even had a little hoop house tunnel thing!

I really like the idea of a community garden (even though I personally have space for a "real" garden). I like garden-y things in general, and having an excuse to work outside is nice, but I think what is so attractive to me about a community garden is the communing part. Or at least the potential to commune.

What a cool way to meet people! And then, what a cool way to forge relationships! And especially in a place like this part of Maryland where community-building doesn't usually make it on to people's priority lists, let alone on their top-ten list.

These people share space and materials, they have at least one similar goal, and they have unique opportunities to work with one another and help each other out. And they can literally plant seeds of community in each other's lives.

I like the idea of community gardens.

Composition 101: Adjust your viewpoint to add a unique twist to a subject. Perspective, perspective, perspective!

Side-of-the-Road Sunday

Composition 101: Adjust your view point to add a unique twist to your subject. Persepctive, perspective, perspective!

Someone

Today I discovered an amazing new (to me at least) show on TLC. It's called Spouse vs. House and it's about couples who think they are getting to do a remodel/redesign on three rooms of their house but then they are split up and only one of them (so far it's been the man) gets to do it and they can't see each other or even talk for three weeks. No contact of any kind. For three weeks.

I was really touched by some of the details the men try to add just for their wives (especially the one guy, Ed) but what really got me was how glad they all were to see each other at the end of those three weeks. I think every single couple I saw mentioned something about how they had never been apart for that long before,and they definitely had not gone that long with out communicating. When reunited, they didn't even want to talk about the remodel at first, they just wanted to touch each other, drink each other in.

I don't think I can say that I really struggle with being single. I'm actually okay with it for the most part--I don't really feel that I have a "ticking clock" and I don't think about it all day every day or anything like that. I mean, some days are harder than others but generally, I'm fine. Today was one of those harder days I think.

I think it would be really nice to...have someone. I'm not entirely sure what that means or entails, but I do think it would feel nice.

Oh, well. I guess first I need to work on being in places where I can even just be around guys. I've actually been really missing having guy friends lately too. *sigh* Work in progress.

Side-of-the-Road Saturday

I'm really starting to enjoy pulling over somewhere when I "see a shot" as I'm driving. Not necessarily safe, but oh so fun!

Composition 101: Look at those leading lines!