From Start to End

Yesterday, I picked the last of the green beans and tore them out after.  It was a really cool project for me, because these same beans are one that I got to plant from seed, in the beginning of my time here.  It was beautiful to be able to see it from start to finish...growth to decay.  Every week it would get a little bigger.  Then, all of a sudden, the beans were there.  It almost seems magical how a seed can turn into such a glorious and bountiful plant.  

When you plant seeds, you really feel responsible for it.  You want it to grow strong and be all that it can be. Some of the gophers liked these beans, and it was hard to see all our hard work be eaten at, which was almost out of our control.  We try a lot to discourage and push away the gophers, but they are persistent creatures.  Then again, so are we.  

My gardening experience has really connected me to nature.  We have a tendency to act like we're above, and so much different than plants and animals - but in a way we're not.  We're just a different species and are able to pick and choose other plants and animals to use and abuse.  Plants try to control their lives too.  Some of the weeds try to mimic the surrounding plants in order to survive.  Isn't that what a lot of people do in life?  Other plants produce wonderful colors, or flowers to entice the bees to pay attention to them.  Don't people do certain things to draw attention at themselves, especially to advance beyond others?  We may not be a plant or an animal, but we share a lot in common with nature.  This world was not created for the benefit of only humans.  In fact, maybe Mother Earth isn't made to benefit any one species over another.  Maybe she has no plan, but instead balances life among all species.

We're at a point in life where a lot of nature and the environment is used, abused, and thrown away.  It's coming back though.  Soon, the water won't be drinkable, and the land will be contaminated with nuclear waste, and so on.  

You get what you give.  And Nature isn't going to just let the abuse go without consequences; without karma.  You get back what you give.  And I'd like to give as much as I can, because I'd like to see not only my generation receive a beautiful bounty, but the families to come too.

P.S. Tried the corn yesterday..soo yummy :)

Love, Meg