10.25.2024 | Ordinary Friday

A wee small rain coming down this morning at the Carondelet Garden.  It doesn't look like it will add up to much at all, but any moisture is welcome right now.  Cloudy skies should prevail throughout the day with highs in the mid 70s.

It has been incredibly dry this Fall in south Saint Louis but the flowers are still gifting us with great beauty and grace.  The changing light and color of the garden this time of year comes along with the waning of both human and plant energy.  It is still important to get as much gardening in now while the weather is cooperating.  It is the perfect time to start setting up the garden for success next year.  It is not so much putting everything to bed but preparing everything for all of the unseen action that takes place over winter.

These past few weeks and months during the election cycle I have used to garden as my refuge from the constant noise, anger and ugliness that can come out of politics.  I feel there is so much background noise that makes it harder to hear the good news.  Heading into the garden and simply taking a moment to reflect and see the way the Creator of all things is working in my life allows for a gentle, growing gratefulness to sprout in place of the weeds of bitterness and despair.  

We stood in line at our public library and voted yesterday.  The lines were longer than I expected, and that is such a wonderful sight.  It is our right and our duty to vote, and I take the privilege seriously.  If you haven't tried early voting I certainly encourage it!

It's Friday and the weekend is once again upon us.  It's the last weekend in October! How can that be?  Lots to do and College Football on Saturday!  Go Irish! Beat Navy!  That's all the news from here in the Carondelet Garden.