Mothers’ Day & Gardening

Last year I spent Mothers’ Day in Tokyo enjoying gardens there. It was delightful, but staying at home with family and enjoying gardens here is even better. So we spend a lot of time in our own garden, enjoying flowers – daffodils and blossoming  forsythia  bushes – in Finnish – is it called  Happiness Bush [...]

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Heart shaped stones – home is where your heart is

Heart shaped stones – from walks by the beach, from Sandy Hook, New Jersey. Tomi and I collected sea shells, small round stones, and heart shaped stones on long walks by the beach during summers 2001 & 2002. The white stone is from Pikisaari, Lappeenranta. Close by where my mother lives, from walks around the [...]

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Thinking of values – and Dalai Lama

Joe’s blog post some weeks ago reminded me of Dalai Lama, Joe had been reading an article of Dalai Lama’s visit to Seattle. And I suddenly remembered how I briefly encountered His Holiness when he visited Finland last autumn. We were in the same flight to Germany. Sometimes we pass by people in life without [...]

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There is nothing as important than gardening and even that is not that important…

Gardening – enjoyment of seeing things grow. 12.- 13.4. 2008 Getting ready for summer Spring things Cutting Hortensia bushes , they grow 1.5 m in summer Making and hanging stone weights for decorative apple tree to shape and curve its top branches Some raking, not much, since there still might be frosty nights Several spring [...]

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