Blowing the stink
‘Sometimes ya gotta go outside and blow the stink off,’…otherwise translated… ‘Sometimes the most effective way to get out of a funk is to get up, get out and focus on something else.’
And with this age old wisdom ringing in my ears, the sunshine and warm temperatures pulled me out of the house, like a bee to nectar, like metal to a magnet, like…well, you get the point. What better way to celebrate springtime than to visit Friend-Lucy-Of-The-Lodge and give her a bit of help shifting plants in her garden?
Doing a small kindness for others can have a great boomerang effect in cheering oneself, I think. For what met my weary and distracted eyes?
Hillsides burgeoning in full bloom with massive rhododendrons in tropical pinks and brilliant reds…
And so, with spade in hand, the stink was effectively ‘blown,’ with an afternoon in the Irish countryside.
And while I was toiling in the soil, Husband-Will caught a few views through his lens…
if you ever feel the need to “blow the stink” again - I have a garden too - and lots of weeds to shift:)) I could use a hand and you could even take pix of a few dogs… unfortunately no rhododendrons though, but then you can’t win them all, as they say over here…
maybe a bit of retail therapy in a wool shop would have been helpful as well?
26 Apr 2007 at 10:32 pm
Oh, how I envy you the moss and lichen. Beautiful. California … tends not to feel the same at all.
27 Apr 2007 at 3:17 am
What lovely flowers. I hope they all “stink” pretty! Looks like you have lovely soil, something I miss living here in the southeastern US. All we have is red clay.
27 Apr 2007 at 4:09 am
So pretty! Our flowers are just starting to appear, and the snow has all melted away!
27 Apr 2007 at 10:00 am
Love gardening…..beautiful rhodes. Nothing better than getting down and dirty….clears the cobwebs away.
27 Apr 2007 at 10:57 am
Lovely springy pictures!! Supposed to be very warm here this weekend - also not at all like your neck of the woods.
27 Apr 2007 at 3:06 pm