First Visit of the Year -- Blooms in Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden

We topped off the Mother's Day celebration with a trip to the Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden off of Theodore Wirth Parkway. We love this place. It seems as if every possible natural environment that the city replaced was preserved here.

Our threesome has passed many a peaceful and playful hour within it's confines. On this particular visit we ran into neighbors from a block closer to the park on James. . .little Gabriel, Josh and Mary.

Planting Future Meals

To celebrate Mother's Day, I prepped and planted our vegetable/herb garden. I had some help, questionable at times, from some young urban farm hands.





It was a log drawn out process, but intensely enjoyable. Nothing can beat the feel of freshly turned (several years of compost and other organic material enhanced) dirt between the fingers. I even ditched the gloves so I could savor the feeling of it on my skin. Granted, I might regret that later if I develop some sort of skin eating bacterial infection in the cuts I got getting the best compost from the bottom of the bin earlier in the morning. . . but for that half hour of breaking up clumps and kneading the dirt I was in heaven.